[HIVE-1144] CREATE VIEW followup: support ALTER TABLE SET TBLPROPERTIES on views

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Assignee: John Sichi
• Reporter: John Sichi
• Created: 09/Feb/10 22:36
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:03
• Resolved: 24/Mar/10 21:58

Description

Currently this fails with the following error:

FAILED: Error in metadata: Cannot use ALTER TABLE on a view

It would be very useful to allow this for tagging user-defined metadata on views.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-972 Support views
• is related to: HIVE-1220 accept TBLPROPERTIES on CREATE TABLE/VIEW