[HIVE-12946] alter table should also add default scheme and authority for the location similar to create table

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Aihua Xu
• Reporter: Aihua Xu
• Created: 27/Jan/16 19:58
• Updated: 21/Jun/16 15:53
• Resolved: 03/Feb/16 15:10

Description

When you call create table command (create table ... location '/abc') and check the database, you will notice that the table location has the scheme. While alter table set location '/abc' would throw an error "

{0}

is not absolute or has no scheme information. Please specify a complete absolute uri with scheme information. /abc".

Seems it should be consistent.