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  2. HIVE-11319

CTAS with location qualifier overwrites directories

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      CTAS with location clause acts as an insert overwrite. This can cause problems when there sub directories with in a directory.
      This cause some users accidentally wipe out directories with very important data. We should ban CTAS with location to a non-empty directory.

      Reproduce:
      create table ctas1
      location '/Users/ychen/tmp'
      as
      select * from jsmall limit 10;

      create table ctas2
      location '/Users/ychen/tmp'
      as
      select * from jsmall limit 5;

      Both creates will succeed. But value in table ctas1 will be replaced by ctas2 accidentally.

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        1. HIVE-11319.2.patch
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          Yongzhi Chen
        2. HIVE-11319.1.patch
          4 kB
          Yongzhi Chen

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