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Chaoyu Tang commented on HIVE-15530:
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+1, Yes, you are right. For a renamed column, its entry in related tables
should be updated as well.
But for alter table to only change the column position, should we update its
stats? I am not sure if it is a common case like "ALTER TABLE test_change
CHANGE a a STRING AFTER b;" to position column a after b.
> Optimize the column stats update logic in table alteration
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-15530
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15530
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Hive
> Reporter: Yibing Shi
> Assignee: Yibing Shi
> Attachments: HIVE-15530.1.patch, HIVE-15530.2.patch,
> HIVE-15530.3.patch, HIVE-15530.4.patch
>
>
> Currently when a table is altered, if any of below conditions is true, HMS
> would try to update column statistics for the table:
> # database name is changed
> # table name is changed
> # old columns and new columns are not the same
> As a result, when a column is added to a table, Hive also tries to update
> column statistics, which is not necessary. We can loose the last condition by
> checking whether all existing columns are changed or not. If not, we don't
> have to update stats info.
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