[HIVE-491] Comments and ALTER TABLE

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Component/s: Clients, Documentation, Metastore, Query Processor
• Assignee: Prasad Chakka
• Reporter: Adam Kramer
• Created: 17/May/09 21:24
• Updated: 07/Mar/11 19:36
• Resolved: 07/Mar/11 19:36

Description

Comments are good! They exist about tables and about columns and all sorts of things. However, the ALTER TABLE syntax allows us to ADD COLUMNS but not comments...we should make it as easy as possible for everybody to add comments to a table, especially regarding descriptions of columns.