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[jira] Reopened: (HIVE-491) Comments and ALTER TABLE

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-491?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Carl Steinbach reopened HIVE-491:
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> Comments and ALTER TABLE
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>                 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.

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