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Suma Shivaprasad edited comment on ATLAS-752 at 5/11/16 4:03 PM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- [~svimal2106] by RENAME COLUMN, you are referring to ALTER TABLE CHANGE COLUMN NAME , correct? Yes in that case, we need to retain tags. In case of REPLACE COLUMNs, since we are replacing the columns which would result in dropping columns/adding new columns) , I dont think we should worry about retaining tags unless the column names are the same(i.e they havent been dropped) was (Author: suma.shivaprasad): [~svimal2106] by RENAME COLUMN, you are referring to ALTER TABLE CHANGE COLUMN NAME , correct? Yes in that case, we need to retain tags. In case of REPLACE COLUMNs, since we are replacing the columns which would result in dropping columns/adding new columns) , I dont think we should worry about retaining tags unless the column names are the same > Column renames should retain traits/tags > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: ATLAS-752 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-752 > Project: Atlas > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.7-incubating > Reporter: Suma Shivaprasad > Assignee: Vimal Sharma > Fix For: 0.7-incubating > > > Currently ALTER TABLE REPLACE COLUMNS which renames a column, recreates the > columns since the name has changed. Instead it should just update column name > and qualifiedName -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)