Vihang Karajgaonkar created HIVE-21077:
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             Summary: Database should have creation time
                 Key: HIVE-21077
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21077
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Standalone Metastore
            Reporter: Vihang Karajgaonkar
            Assignee: Vihang Karajgaonkar


Currently, database do not have creation time like we have for tables and 
partitions.

{noformat}
// namespace for tables
struct Database {
  1: string name,
  2: string description,
  3: string locationUri,
  4: map<string, string> parameters, // properties associated with the database
  5: optional PrincipalPrivilegeSet privileges,
  6: optional string ownerName,
  7: optional PrincipalType ownerType,
  8: optional string catalogName
}
{noformat}

Currently, without creationTime there is no way to identify if the copy of 
Database which a client has is the same as the one no the server if the dbName 
is same. Without object ids creationTimeStamp is the only way currently to 
identify uniquely a instance of metastore object. It would be good to have 
Database creation time as well.



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