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Navis commented on HIVE-2584: ----------------------------- I'm on this (including HIVE-4064, HIVE-3589, etc.) . > Alter table should accept database name > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2584 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2584 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.7.1 > Reporter: Bharath Mundlapudi > Assignee: Chun Chen > Attachments: HIVE-2584.2.patch, HIVE-2584.3.patch, HIVE-2584.4.patch, > HIVE-2584.5.patch, HIVE-2584.6.patch, HIVE-2584.patch > > > It would be nice if alter table accepts database name. > For example: > This would be more useful in certain usecases: > > alter table DB.Tbl set location <location>; > rather than 2 statements. > use DB; > alter table Tbl set location <location>; > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)