[KUDU-1746] Add support for specifying all possible column options in AlterTableOptions.addColumn()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Code Review: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/5132
• Assignee: William Berkeley
• Reporter: Dimitris Tsirogiannis
• Created: 15/Nov/16 01:35
• Updated: 07/Dec/16 16:43
• Resolved: 07/Dec/16 16:43

Description

Currently, AlterTableOptions.addColumn() call allows only name, type and default value to be specified when a new column is added to an existing table. Hence, four API calls are needed in order to fully specify a column that includes column encoding, compression and desired block size. From a usability point of view it would be better if all possible options could be specified using a single call. Impala will make use of a such an API call so that users can specify new columns using a single ALTER TABLE statement.