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Teddy Choi commented on HIVE-4847:
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I agree that this feature may cause unexpected errors due to recent
innovations, mostly in metadata. I'll update its status.
> add rename database functionality
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> Key: HIVE-4847
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4847
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 0.11.0
> Reporter: Greg Rahn
> Assignee: Teddy Choi
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HIVE-4847.1.patch.txt, HIVE-4847.2.patch.txt
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> There seems to be no way to rename a database in Hive, functionality to do so
> would be nice.
> Proposed syntax:
> ALTER DATABASE dbname RENAME TO newdbname;
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