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

["Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque created SQOOP-2647:
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             Summary: Add option for drop-if-exists when using sqoop hcat import.
                 Key: SQOOP-2647
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-2647
             Project: Sqoop
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: hive-integration
    Affects Versions: 1.4.6
            Reporter: Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque
            Assignee: Muhammad Ehsan ul Haque
            Priority: Minor


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-hcatalog-table-if-exists, which works only if --create-hcatalog-table is present and the effect would be that it drops the hive/hcatalog table before running the data import.



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