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Daniel Dai commented on HIVE-21462: ----------------------------------- +1 for 02.patch. > Upgrading SQL server backed metastore when changing data type of a column > with constraints > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-21462 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21462 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Standalone Metastore > Reporter: Ashutosh Bapat > Assignee: Ashutosh Bapat > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 4.0.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-21462.01.patch, HIVE-21462.02.patch > > Original Estimate: 24h > Time Spent: 10m > Remaining Estimate: 23h 50m > > SQL server does not allow changing data type of a column which has a > constraint or an index on it. The constraint or the index needs to be dropped > before changing the data type and needs to be recreated after that. Metastore > upgrade scripts aren't doing this and thus upgrade fails. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)