Hello
we are currently running HDP-2.3.4.0-3485 with Hive ACID and, after upgrading in our staging env to HDP-2.4.2.0-258, we cannot ALTER tables with partitions anymore.
Here is an example of a query and the error
ALTER TABLE clicks_new CHANGE COLUMN billing billing STRUCT<
Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Changing from type struct<cost:float,originalCost:float,currency:string,currencyExchangeRate:float,bid:struct<id:string,amount:float,originalAmount:float,currency:string,currencyExchangeRate:float>,revenue:float,revenueCurrency:string,publisherRevenue:float> to struct<cost:float,originalCost:float,currency:string,currencyExchangeRate:float,bid:struct<id:string,amount:float,originalAmount:float,currency:string,currencyExchangeRate:float>,revenue:float,revenueCurrency:string,publisherRevenue:float,revenueCurrencyExchangeRate:float> is not supported for column billing. SerDe may be incompatible (state=08S01,code=1)
This used to work with HDP-2.3, and I know it's something disabled on purpose and that will come back with HDP-2.5 and Hive 2.0, but my question is: is there some setting to re-enable the old feature (with all its limits) as in HDP-2.3?
