[HIVE-2584] Alter table should accept database name

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.1
• Assignee: Chun Chen Assign to me
• Reporter: Bharath Mundlapudi
• Created: 16/Nov/11 18:19
• Updated: 13/Aug/14 07:56
• Resolved: 13/Aug/14 07:56

Description

It would be nice if alter table accepts database name.

For example:

This would be more useful in certain usecases:

alter table DB.Tbl set location <location>;

rather than 2 statements.

use DB;
alter table Tbl set location <location>;

Issue Links

• Is contained by: HIVE-4064 Handle db qualified names consistently across all HiveQL statements
• is duplicated by: HIVE-7681 qualified tablenames usage does not work with several alter-table commands