[HIVE-2133] DROP TABLE IF EXISTS should not fail if a view of that name exists

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: John Sichi
• Reporter: John Sichi
• Created: 25/Apr/11 23:00
• Updated: 16/Dec/11 23:56
• Resolved: 29/Apr/11 07:19

Description

We should match MySQL behavior on this. Likewise for DROP VIEW IF EXISTS when a table of that name exists.

Note that without IF EXISTS, we still want the statement to fail when the existing object type does not match.