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Wei Zheng reassigned HIVE-10751: -------------------------------- Assignee: Wei Zheng > Hive View Specification Needs Update > ------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-10751 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10751 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Task > Components: Documentation > Affects Versions: 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.13.0, 0.13.1 > Reporter: Tim Gattone > Assignee: Wei Zheng > Priority: Trivial > > On this page: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-Create/Drop/AlterView > > There is no mention in the spec of the optional [db_name] to qualify the View > with, but it is mentioned with CREATE TABLE. > > Isn’t this an oversight? My understanding is that we can qualify the CREATE > VIEW statement with the database such as CREATE VIEW jrnl.sbb_base_v > > The reason I ask is another vendor is questioning this syntax. > > CREATE VIEW [IF NOT EXISTS] view_name [(column_name [COMMENT column_comment], > ...) ] > [COMMENT view_comment] > [TBLPROPERTIES (property_name = property_value, ...)] > AS SELECT ...; > ================================================= > Email response from Hortonworks: > Subject: Hive - Question > > Good morning Tim, > > I have received this email thread from Doug. I have looked into it below are > my findings. > > Yes. We can qualify the CREATE VIEW statement with the database. > > hive> create view db1.vw3 as select * from default.x1; > OK > Time taken: 0.084 seconds > hive> > > This could be a possible documentation issue or improvement, which can be > addressed by raising an Apache JIRA. This documentation is maintained by > apache and HWX contributes to it. Anyone can register and raise Apache JIRA. > > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. > > > Thank you, > Sai -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)