Comments and ALTER TABLE
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                 Key: HIVE-491
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-491
             Project: Hadoop Hive
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Clients, Documentation, Metastore, Query Processor
            Reporter: Adam Kramer


Comments are good! They exist about tables and about columns and all sorts of 
things. However, the ALTER TABLE syntax allows us to ADD COLUMNS but not 
comments...we should make it as easy as possible for everybody to add comments 
to a table, especially regarding descriptions of columns.

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