RANGER-5668:INSERT INTO External Hive Table Fails for Table/Database Owner When Access Is Granted Through Ranger {OWNER} Policy#1066
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What changes were proposed in this pull request?
This patch fixes an issue where INSERT operations on newly created external Hive tables fail for the table/database owner even when a Ranger Hive policy grants permissions through the {OWNER} policy.
The issue occurred because owner-based authorization was not being correctly honored immediately after creating a new external table. As a result, the table owner received a HiveAccessControlException indicating that the UPDATE privilege was missing until the Ranger policy was manually refreshed.
This change ensures that owner information is correctly evaluated during authorization so that {OWNER}-based policies are applied immediately after table creation, eliminating the need for a manual Ranger policy refresh.
How was this patch tested?
The project was built successfully using mvn clean compile package install