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Hudson commented on HIVE-3672: ------------------------------ Integrated in Hive-trunk-h0.21 #1983 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Hive-trunk-h0.21/1983/]) HIVE-3672 Support altering partition column type in Hive (Jingwei Lu via namit) (Revision 1449109) Result = SUCCESS namit : http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Apache-SVN&view=rev&rev=1449109 Files : * /hive/trunk/metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/exec/DDLTask.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/HiveParser.g * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/SemanticAnalyzerFactory.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/plan/AlterTableAlterPartDesc.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/plan/AlterTableDesc.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/plan/DDLWork.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientnegative/alter_partition_coltype_2columns.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientnegative/alter_partition_coltype_invalidcolname.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientnegative/alter_partition_coltype_invalidtype.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/alter_partition_coltype.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientnegative/alter_partition_coltype_2columns.q.out * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientnegative/alter_partition_coltype_invalidcolname.q.out * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientnegative/alter_partition_coltype_invalidtype.q.out * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientpositive/alter_partition_coltype.q.out > Support altering partition column type in Hive > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3672 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3672 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: CLI, SQL > Reporter: Jingwei Lu > Assignee: Jingwei Lu > Labels: features > Fix For: 0.11.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-3672.1.patch.txt, HIVE-3672.2.patch.txt, > HIVE-3672.3.patch.txt, HIVE-3672.4.patch.txt, HIVE-3672.5.patch.txt, > HIVE-3672.6.patch.txt, HIVE-3672.6.patch.txt, HIVE-3672.7.patch.txt, > HIVE-3672.8.patch.txt, HIVE-3672.9.patch.txt > > Original Estimate: 72h > Remaining Estimate: 72h > > Currently, Hive does not allow altering partition column types. As we've > discouraged users from using non-string partition column types, this presents > a problem for users who want to change there partition columns to be strings, > they have to rename their table, create a new table, and copy all the data > over. > To support this via the CLI, adding a command like ALTER TABLE <table_name> > PARTITION COLUMN (<column_name> <new type>); -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira