[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-5032) Enable hive creating external table at the root directory of DFS

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Hive QA commented on HIVE-5032:
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{color:green}Overall{color}: +1 all checks pass

Here are the results of testing the latest attachment:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12596989/HIVE-5032.1.patch

{color:green}SUCCESS:{color} +1 2773 tests passed

Test results: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HIVE-Build/353/testReport
Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HIVE-Build/353/console

Messages:
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Executing org.apache.hive.ptest.execution.PrepPhase
Executing org.apache.hive.ptest.execution.ExecutionPhase
Executing org.apache.hive.ptest.execution.ReportingPhase
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This message is automatically generated.
                
> Enable hive creating external table at the root directory of DFS
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-5032
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5032
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Shuaishuai Nie
>         Attachments: HIVE-5032.1.patch
>
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> Creating external table using HIVE with location point to the root directory of DFS will fail because the function HiveFileFormatUtils#doGetPartitionDescFromPath treat authority of the path the same as folder and cannot find a match in the "pathToPartitionInfo" table when doing prefix match. 

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