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 ...
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');
There is an even better solution to this, which is basically a one liner.
insert overwrite table table_xyz select * from table_xyz where 1=2;
This code will delete all the files and create a blank file in the external folder location with absolute zero records.
By default, TRUNCATE TABLE is supported only on managed tables. Attempting to truncate an external table results in the following error:
Error: org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Operation not allowed: TRUNCATE TABLE on external tables
Action Required
Change applications. Do not attempt to run TRUNCATE TABLE on an external table.
Alternatively, change applications to alter a table property to set external.table.purge to true to allow truncation of an external table:
ALTER TABLE mytable SET TBLPROPERTIES ('external.table.purge'='true');