[HIVE-18364] Documentation does not include all the scenarios

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.2
• Component/s: Documentation, Hive
• Docs Text: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Locking
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Abhishek Talluri
• Created: 03/Jan/18 16:07
• Updated: 03/Jan/18 16:07

Description

Documentation does not include all the ALTER TABLE statements that requires locks to be obtained for their operations. For example, ALTER TABLE table_name SET LOCATION command does not exist in the table provided at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Locking

Also there is no information provided regarding locking for a view. During my testing I found that we can change the definition of views even when we run a query on that view.