[HIVE-19135] Need tool to allow admins to create catalogs and move existing dbs to catalog during upgrade

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.0, 3.0.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Alan Gates
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 09/Apr/18 19:16
• Updated: 01/Oct/19 22:07
• Resolved: 09/May/18 20:34

Description

As part of upgrading to Hive 3 admins may wish to create new catalogs and move some existing databases into those catalogs.  We can do this by adding options to schematool.  This guarantees that only admins can do these operations.

Issue Links

• links to: github pull request