Throw error when attempting to create a column with the same name as a partition column ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2301 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2301 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: CLI Affects Versions: 0.8.0 Reporter: Paul Yang Priority: Minor If an alter table is run to rename a column to the same name as a partition column, the alter will succeed. However, subsequent operations on that table will fail. {code} hive> create table tmp_pyang_test (key string) partitioned by (ds string); OK Time taken: 4.773 seconds hive> alter table tmp_pyang_test replace columns (ds string); OK Time taken: 1.254 seconds hive> describe tmp_pyang_test; FAILED: Error in metadata: Partition column name ds conflicts with table columns. FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask hive> {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira