Hi Yussuf
A hive user here having the same issues.
I think the interface method just follows the same code path as an Alter
table query would do.
My current thinking is that this safeguard was probably more useful in the
olden days of CSV files. With the more modern file formats like Avro, ORC
and
Hello,
We recently ran into an issue where calls to IMetaStoreClient.alter_table()
were failing with an error message like the following:
"The following columns have types incompatible with the existing columns in
their respective positions : foo, bar".
For some background, we use Confluent's
