Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Please remove this confusing feature.
As I understand it, this as an artifact of a previous era in Hive and that the best way to do this now is to create an EXTERNAL table then INSERT INTO .. SELECT * FROM ... the table into a managed table. The benefit of this is that table stats are collected during the INSERT statement and stats are not calculated as part of LOAD DATA.