As HIVE-17980 has been committed to master, I will be rebasing the standalone-metastore branch up to the latest in master. This will again be a force push.
In this rebase I am also including a newer version of HIVE-17983, which includes integration tests that use docker images to test the database installation and upgrade scripts against all four databases beyond Derby. These were quite useful in finding and fixing issues for Postgres, SqlServer, and Oracle. As the tests take a few minutes to run and in the case of Oracle require the user to download a JDBC jar, they are off by default. Instructions on how to run them have been added in a DEV-README file as part of the patch. Alan.
