[HIVE-6933] "alter table add partition" should support db_name.table_name as table name.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gwen Shapira
• Created: 18/Apr/14 17:36
• Updated: 02/Sep/14 07:04
• Resolved: 02/Sep/14 07:04

Description

Currently,
"alter table table_name add partition ...." works.
but
"alter table db_name.table_name add partition ..." throws an error message (different error for different versions).

For consistency, I suggest with support both ways of referring to a table.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-4064 Handle db qualified names consistently across all HiveQL statements