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Carl Steinbach commented on HIVE-1517: -------------------------------------- I'm not sure I understand the problem with DROP TABLE. How is it ambiguous? As for ANALYZE TABLE, it looks like the definition of the tabTypeExpr rule in the grammar is more complicated than it needs to be? Isn't this just tableName from my patch? > ability to select across a database > ----------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1517 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1517 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Namit Jain > Assignee: Siying Dong > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.7.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-1517.1.patch.txt, HIVE-1517.2.patch.txt > > > After https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-675, we need a way to be > able to select across a database for this feature to be useful. > For eg: > use db1 > create table foo(....); > use db2 > select .. from db1.foo..... -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira