[SPARK-19261] Support `ALTER TABLE table_name ADD COLUMNS(..)` statement

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Xin Wu
• Reporter: StanZhai
• Created: 17/Jan/17 13:53
• Updated: 03/Jan/19 19:46
• Resolved: 21/Mar/17 15:50

Description

We should support `ALTER TABLE table_name ADD COLUMNS(..)` statement, which already be used in version < 2.x.

This is very useful for those who want to upgrade there Spark version to 2.x.

Issue Links

• duplicates: SPARK-18893 Not support "alter table .. add columns .."
• is related to: SPARK-21929 Support `ALTER TABLE table_name ADD COLUMNS(..)` for ORC data source
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #16617 (stanzhai)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #16626 (xwu0226)