GitHub user dhatchayani opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/1561
[CARBONDATA-1802] Alter query fails if a column is dropped and there is no key column (1) Alter query fails if a column is dropped and there is no key column All key columns in a carbon table can be dropped, as we are supporting table creation with no keycolumn, alter also should be consistent with this. (2) Table already exists exception is wrong. Corrected error message - [ ] Any interfaces changed? - [ ] Any backward compatibility impacted? - [ ] Document update required? - [X] Testing done UT Added - [ ] For large changes, please consider breaking it into sub-tasks under an umbrella JIRA. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dhatchayani/incubator-carbondata alter_command Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/1561.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1561 ---- commit 88fa0f1b5416c55cadafeaf0e5ae10a416a0cf6e Author: dhatchayani <dhatcha.offic...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-11-24T08:53:04Z Alter query fails if a column is dropped and there is no key column ---- ---