[jira] [Commented] (PHOENIX-1614) ALTER TABLE ADD IF NOT EXISTS doesn't work as expected

["Toshihiro Suzuki (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Toshihiro Suzuki commented on PHOENIX-1614:
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Ping [~elserj] [~ankit@apache.org]

> ALTER TABLE ADD IF NOT EXISTS doesn't work as expected
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PHOENIX-1614
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1614
>             Project: Phoenix
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Gabriel Reid
>            Assignee: Toshihiro Suzuki
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: argus
>             Fix For: 4.15.0
>
>         Attachments: PHOENIX-1614-v2.patch, PHOENIX-1614-v3.patch, PHOENIX-1614.patch
>
>
> On an existing table table, executing "ALTER TABLE ADD IF NOT EXISTS
> thisColAlreadyExists varchar, thisColDoesNotExist varchar", then
> nothing will be changed in the table because thisColAlreadyExists
> already exists.
> Omitting the already-existing column from the statement, all new columns
> do get created.
> The general expectation would be that when you use ADD IF NOT EXISTS, all
> non-existent columns will be added, and all existing columns in the
> statement will just be ignored. There is already an integration test
> (AlterTableIT#testAddVarCols) that actually demonstrates the current
> behavior, although this is probably not correct.
> As pointed out in the related mailing list thread [1], ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN likely suffers from the same issue.
> 1. http://s.apache.org/LMT 



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