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Eugene Koifman commented on HIVE-18685: --------------------------------------- {quote}9. It is not yet determined what types of cross catalog queries and DML statements will be supported. The initial version(s) should not do anything that prevents cross catalog {color:#333333}queries or DML statements in the future{color} {quote} Until this is determined, what will guard against a DML that does cross catalogs? There is nothing in the above discussion about Lock Managers which don't understand catalog concept. > Add catalogs to metastore > ------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-18685 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18685 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Metastore > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Alan Gates > Assignee: Alan Gates > Priority: Major > Attachments: HMS Catalog Design Doc.pdf > > > SQL supports two levels of namespaces, called in the spec catalogs and > schemas (with schema being equivalent to Hive's database). I propose to add > the upper level of catalog. The attached design doc covers the use cases, > requirements, and brief discussion of how it will be implemented in a > backwards compatible way. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)