[HIVE-1439] Alter the number of buckets for a table

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0, 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Assignee: Paul Yang
• Reporter: Paul Yang
• Created: 25/Jun/10 21:02
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:03
• Resolved: 29/Jun/10 22:25

Description

Add an alter table command to change the number of buckets for a table.

e.g.

ALTER TABLE mytabl SET NUMBUCKETS 64;