See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18755. Basically catalog is a container for databases - all databases belong to a catalog. This means that Sentry may need to support catalog-level privileges.
- Alex On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Kalyan Kumar Kalvagadda < kkal...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Sasha, > > Could you share information on what catalog is? > > -Kalyan > > > *Thanks,Kalyan Kumar Kalvagadda* | Software Engineer > t. (469) 279- <0000000000>5732 > cloudera.com <https://www.cloudera.com> > > [image: Cloudera] <https://www.cloudera.com/> > > [image: Cloudera on Twitter] <https://twitter.com/cloudera> [image: > Cloudera on Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/cloudera> [image: Cloudera > on LinkedIn] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudera> > ------------------------------ > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Alexander Kolbasov <ak...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > > Hive 3 introduced the notion of catalog. What do people think about > > supporting it in Sentry as well? At some point we will move to Hive-3 and > > then it will become a requirement I guess. > > > > - Alex > > >
