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Jingwei Lu commented on HIVE-3672:
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> Support altering partition column type in Hive
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> Key: HIVE-3672
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3672
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: CLI, SQL
> Affects Versions: 0.10.0
> Reporter: Jingwei Lu
> Assignee: Jingwei Lu
> Fix For: 0.10.0
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> Original Estimate: 72h
> Remaining Estimate: 72h
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> Currently, Hive does not allow altering partition column types. As we've
> discouraged users from using non-string partition column types, this presents
> a problem for users who want to change there partition columns to be strings,
> they have to rename their table, create a new table, and copy all the data
> over.
> To support this via the CLI, adding a command like ALTER TABLE <table_name>
> PARTITION COLUMN (<column_name> <new type>);
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