[metastore] Editing view comments should use ALTER VIEW instead of TABLE

From Daniel on http://gethue.com/browsing-hive-tables-data-and-metadata-is-getting-faster-and-prettier/

Hi, I created a table in the SQL editor without column comments. So is showing: “from deserializer”, I change the comment but it seems that is not updating, because when I come back is showing “from deserializer” again. Any thoughts?

Apparently the problem is because i’m using:
ROW FORMAT SERDE ‘org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.OpenCSVSerde’ in the table creation.

Anyway, I created a view to point to that table, but when I try to update the column comments I have an error:

Failed to alter column `default`.`fc_full_view` `id`: Bad status for request TExecuteStatementReq(confOverlay={}, sessionHandle=TSessionHandle(sessionId=THandleIdentifier(secret=’z2\x8b\xa6\xe2\xb8Gi\xaf\x90\x02\x1e\x021\xaeK’, guid=’\xaei>e\xa7\xe9OJ\xb8\xc1 +\x1c\xc2~\x1a’)), runAsync=True, statement=”ALTER TABLE `default`.`fc_full_view` CHANGE COLUMN `id` `id` INT COMMENT ‘ID ‘”): TExecuteStatementResp(status=TStatus(errorCode=10131, errorMessage=’Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10131]: To alter a view you need to use the ALTER VIEW command.’, sqlState=’42000′, infoMessages=[‘*org.apache.hive.service.cli.HiveSQLException:Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10131]: To alter a view you need to use the ALTER VIEW command.:47:46’, ‘org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.Operation:toSQLException:Operation.java:335’, ‘org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation:prepare:SQLOperation.java:148’, 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It seems that is trying to do an ALTER TABLE instead of an ALTER VIEW?