[GitHub] carbondata issue #1749: [CARBONDATA-1968] Add external table support

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Github user mohammadshahidkhan commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/1749
 
    @jackylk
    I have couple of Queries.
    For carbon external table, how to identify the table is external table?
    What would be drop table behaviour for external carbon table?
    As per hive For an external table, dropping the table only involves changes to metadata in the metastore database.
    The data in the table will NOT be deleted from the file system.


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