Vihang Karajgaonkar created HIVE-21077: ------------------------------------------
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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)