How to truncate a partitioned external table in hive?












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I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :



 hive> truncate table abc; 


But, it is throwing me an error stating : Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.



Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...










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    I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :



     hive> truncate table abc; 


    But, it is throwing me an error stating : Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.



    Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...










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      I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :



       hive> truncate table abc; 


      But, it is throwing me an error stating : Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.



      Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...










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      I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :



       hive> truncate table abc; 


      But, it is throwing me an error stating : Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.



      Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...







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          Make your table MANAGED first:



          ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');


          Then truncate:



          truncate table abc;


          And finally you can make it external again:



          ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');





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            Make your table MANAGED first:



            ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');


            Then truncate:



            truncate table abc;


            And finally you can make it external again:



            ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');





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              Make your table MANAGED first:



              ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');


              Then truncate:



              truncate table abc;


              And finally you can make it external again:



              ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');





              share|improve this answer
























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                Make your table MANAGED first:



                ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');


                Then truncate:



                truncate table abc;


                And finally you can make it external again:



                ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');





                share|improve this answer












                Make your table MANAGED first:



                ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');


                Then truncate:



                truncate table abc;


                And finally you can make it external again:



                ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');






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