ALTER TABLE .. RENAME implemented as no-op

[cwoerner]

It's pretty common for programmatic table management to involve "ALTER TABLE .. RENAME" commands. An example would be some ETL process creating an external table in Hive with a temporary name, then querying it to perform some validation prior to renaming it with the final production table name. Unfortunately, the ALTER TABLE..RENAME statement is implemented as a logging no-op in the external table command in this project. Are there any plans to implement it? It seems like a straightforward implementation but I wondered whether there were any gotchas known to the authors that would pose a challenge for anyone interested in contributing this feature.

[cono]

I haven't tested it, but code can look like this: #232

[cwoerner]

Could someone from the Snowflake team comment on the likelihood of this missing feature being addressed? We're trying to decide what the right path forward for us is, but that largely hinges on how responsive the developer community supporting this plugin is. We don't want to fork and patch unless there is a signal from someone maintaining the project that they might be willing to apply the patch and make an official release, at least eventually.