[HIVE-26258] Provide an option for enable locking of external tables

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-2
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Peter Vary
• Reporter: Peter Vary
• Created: 23/May/22 11:16
• Updated: 16/Nov/22 13:50
• Resolved: 24/May/22 11:59

Description

During migration to Hive 3 the MANAGED tables are migrated to EXTERNAL tables.
To provide backward compatibility we need an option to keep the original strict locking for these external tables.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3313