[SQOOP-2647] Add option for drop-if-exists when using sqoop hcat import.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.7
• Component/s: hive-integration
• Labels: hcatalog newbie trivial
• Assignee: Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque
• Reporter: Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque
• Created: 28/Oct/15 08:39
• Updated: 04/Mar/16 17:45
• Resolved: 04/Mar/16 16:51

Description

To recover from a failed sqoop import via hcat using --create-hcatalog-table, there is a manual step needed to clean up the hive table i.e. (DROP TABLE IF EXISTS <table_name>). It would be great to have another flag --drop-and-create-hcatalog-table, which works like --create-hcatalog-table with an addition of drop if exists before creating the table.