[HIVE-21331] Metastore should throw exception back if it is not able to delete the folder

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Rajesh Balamohan
• Reporter: Rajesh Balamohan
• Created: 27/Feb/19 10:18
• Updated: 27/Feb/19 13:03

Description

https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveMetaStore.java#L2678

 

In one of the cases, table got deleted from HMS, but the data was not deleted. On looking at the issue, `deleteDir` is not throwing the exception back.  Real exception gets logged (in this case it was user quota limit exceeeded exception), but the managed table gets dropped without deleting the data. "alter table rename" after this would fail as the data is not deleted.