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Tried to create external table: ``` CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS aaa ( event_id string, make string) STORED AS PARQUET LOCATION 's3://:@/'; ``` But ended up > Error: org.apache.hive.service.cli.HiveSQLException:...

We have a schema / external table on AWS athena for this folder as well, and it was working fine.

@vinothchandar May I join the slack group? [email protected]

> Thanks a lot for the contribution @leletan . It looks mostly good to me, I've left a couple of comments. It would be great if someone else (maybe @zentol...

Also I am wondering if this change would need any further test coverages? If yes, where would be the best place I should start looking?

@pnowojski @zentol Addressed the code comments (at least I thought I did) and generated the docs. Could you please take a look whenever you have time? Thanks!

Hi folks, @pnowojski @stevenzwu @zentol Thanks for your review. I believe I addressed all comments (including ones about docs and tests), except the pending naming of the old CheckpointType class...

Thanks again folks. All comments should be address, please let me know if there is anything else I need to do for this PR.

@stevenzwu All your comments should be addressed. Please let me know if there is anything missing. Thanks!

@pnowojski Your comments and change requests should all be addressed. Please let me know if I miss anything. Thanks!