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Prasad Chakka commented on HIVE-571:
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Yongqing, can you add the change to wiki after this is committed? when you do
that please mention that the underlying data is untouched and it is the
responsibility of the user to change the data to fit the new schema.
> 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
> Assignee: He Yongqiang
> Fix For: 0.5.0
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> Attachments: hive-571-2009-12-22-2.patch, hive-571-2009-12-22.patch
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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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