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Carl Steinbach updated HIVE-957: -------------------------------- Component/s: Metastore > Partition Metadata and Table Metadata > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-957 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-957 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Reporter: He Yongqiang > Assignee: He Yongqiang > Fix For: 0.5.0 > > Attachments: hive-957-2009-11-30-2.patch, > hive-957-2009-11-30-3.patch, hive-957-2009-11-30.patch > > > Right now, we choose to use partition lever metadata. All metadata (column > names, column types, fileformat, serde class, serde properties) right now are > from partition level metadata. But hive does not support a method now to > alter all existing partitions' metadata, so users mostly choose to alter > table metadata, and think hive will use the new table level metadata. > One approach is that we may need to provide a way to let user alter all > partitions' metadata with one simple command. Right now a short term solution > is to only get fileformat, serde class metadata from paritition level > metadata, and use all other metadata from table. > any comments? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.