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Ashish Kumar Singh commented on HIVE-7446:
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Apparently, with the changes in HIVE-6806, alter table.. add column is also
working for avro backed tables. Adding patch with a couple of qtests to verify
the same.
> Add support to ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN to Avro backed tables
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> Key: HIVE-7446
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7446
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Ashish Kumar Singh
> Assignee: Ashish Kumar Singh
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> HIVE-6806 adds native support for creating hive table stored as Avro. It
> would be good to add support to ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN to Avro backed
> tables.
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