Even if its possible, doesn't makes sense to make an external table, transactional. External Table reads data from HDFS and making it transactional would mean the file in the HDFS will be written again and again which violates the Hadoop "write once and read many times" paradigm and also increases the write-head time on the cluster. That is why HIVE explicitly warns about this and doesn't allow you to do this.
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