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John Sichi commented on HIVE-1078: ---------------------------------- After HIVE-1941, it's important for CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW to preserve any existing view partitions. Since we don't store any column definitions with the view partitions, this should be trivial. > CREATE VIEW followup: CREATE OR REPLACE > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1078 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1078 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Query Processor > Affects Versions: 0.6.0 > Reporter: John Sichi > Assignee: John Sichi > > Currently, replacing a view requires > DROP VIEW v; > CREATE VIEW v AS <new-definition>; > CREATE OR REPLACE would allow these to be combined into a single operation. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira