Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hive-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 56798 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2011 19:38:24 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 7 Mar 2011 19:38:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 97146 invoked by uid 500); 7 Mar 2011 19:38:24 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hive-dev-archive@hive.apache.org Received: (qmail 97114 invoked by uid 500); 7 Mar 2011 19:38:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@hive.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@hive.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@hive.apache.org Received: (qmail 97106 invoked by uid 500); 7 Mar 2011 19:38:24 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 97103 invoked by uid 99); 7 Mar 2011 19:38:24 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:38:24 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2000.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.116] (HELO hel.zones.apache.org) (140.211.11.116) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:38:22 +0000 Received: from hel.zones.apache.org (hel.zones.apache.org [140.211.11.116]) by hel.zones.apache.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5708439B36F for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:38:00 +0000 (UTC) From: "Carl Steinbach (JIRA)" To: hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org Message-ID: <699347053.2057.1299526680352.JavaMail.tomcat@hel.zones.apache.org> Subject: [jira] Resolved: (HIVE-491) Comments and ALTER TABLE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-491?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Carl Steinbach resolved HIVE-491. --------------------------------- Resolution: Invalid > Comments and ALTER TABLE > ------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-491 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-491 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Clients, Documentation, Metastore, Query Processor > Reporter: Adam Kramer > Assignee: Prasad Chakka > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira