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He Yongqiang commented on HIVE-571:
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I would like to let the syntax looks like:
alter table table_name RENAME col_1, col_2 ... (new_col_1 data_type [COMMENT
col_comment], new_col_2 data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ....)
> add ability to rename a column.
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> Key: HIVE-571
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-571
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Metastore
> Affects Versions: 0.4.0
> Reporter: Prasad Chakka
> Fix For: 0.4.0
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> currently only way to rename a column is to use 'REPLACE COLUMNS' which can
> be cumbersome if the table has lots of columns.
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