[jira] [Created] (HIVE-18689) restore inheritPerms functionality and extend it to ACID

["Sergey Shelukhin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sergey Shelukhin created HIVE-18689:
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             Summary: restore inheritPerms functionality and extend it to ACID
                 Key: HIVE-18689
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18689
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
            Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin


This functionality was removed for no clear reason (if it doesn't apply to some use case it can just be disabled).
It's still in use; in fact, it should be extended to ACID table subdirectories.

This patch restores the functionality with some cleanup (to not access config everywhere, mostly), disables it by default, and extends it to ACID tables.

There's a coming HDFS feature that will automatically inherit permissions. When that is shipped in a non-beta version and stabilized a bit, we can remove this functionality... however I dunno if that is good for other potential use cases, like non-HDFS file systems that do have a concept of a directory (Isilon?)



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