Mithun Radhakrishnan created HCATALOG-560:
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Summary: HCatClient should support addition of new columns to a
Table.
Key: HCATALOG-560
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-560
Project: HCatalog
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: client
Affects Versions: 0.4.1
Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
Fix For: 0.5, 0.4.1
HCatClient currently doesn't support the modification of a Table schema to
support new columns. (The equivalent of "ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN(...)".)
This is required by systems that need to support evolving data-schemas. If one
considers the simplified case of only appending columns to the end of a table's
schema-definition, it should be easy to provide and implement the following API
in terms of HMSClient::alter_table():
public void appendColumnsToTable(String db, String table, List<HCatFieldSchema>
newColumns) throws HCatException;
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