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Prasad Chakka resolved HIVE-491.
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Resolution: Fixed
Assignee: Prasad Chakka
Actually adding comments is allowed under a different syntax.
alter table abc ( a string COMMENT 'comment string');
This is also MySQL syntax. So use this syntax and I modified the wiki
accordingly.
> Comments and ALTER TABLE
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> Key: HIVE-491
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-491
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Clients, Documentation, Metastore, Query Processor
> Reporter: Adam Kramer
> Assignee: Prasad Chakka
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> Comments are good! They exist about tables and about columns and all sorts of
> things. However, the ALTER TABLE syntax allows us to ADD COLUMNS but not
> comments...we should make it as easy as possible for everybody to add
> comments to a table, especially regarding descriptions of columns.
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