[HIVE-24188] CTLT from MM to External or External to MM are failing with hive.strict.managed.tables & hive.create.as.acid

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Naresh P R
• Reporter: Naresh P R
• Created: 22/Sep/20 04:42
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:48
• Resolved: 24/Sep/20 00:59

Description

Repro steps

 

set hive.support.concurrency=true;
set hive.txn.manager=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lockmgr.DbTxnManager;
create table test_mm(age int, name string) partitioned by(dept string) stored as orc tblproperties('transactional'='true', 'transactional_properties'='default');
create external table test_external like test_mm LOCATION '${system:test.tmp.dir}/create_like_mm_to_external';

Fails with below exception

Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:default.test_external cannot be declared transactional because it's an external table) (state=08S01,code=1)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1516