[HIVE-21519] The meta data of table is not updated after setting a new data location

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: Database/Schema
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Boying Lu
• Created: 27/Mar/19 02:28
• Updated: 27/Mar/19 02:28

Description

re-produce steps:

1. create a new hive table T1 (without any partition)
2.  persist some data into T1
3. create a new hive table T2 (without any partition)
4. alter table T2 set location path-to-T1-HDFS-folder

expected result:

     The metadata of T2 is changed accordingly

 

actual resut:

    The metadata of T2 is not changed

even after running the commands:

   analyze table T2 compute statistics (only the number of rows was updated)

   msck repair table T2 (no effect)