Alter partition command with database name as prefix returns error

Hello Team

Observed an issue when running alter table command on partition data to change the datatype , the command returns an error[2] when the command prefixed with database name as shown below.

[1]

Alter table databasename.tablename partition (ld_yr='2018',ld_mn='12',ld_dy='27') change columnA columnA varchar(64);

[2]

Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Unable to alter partition. Alter partition operation fails: NoSuchObjectException(message:partition values=[2018, 07, 23])

 
The solution to resolve the error[2] is as follows.

a) if you are running queries via hive/beeline then please run command "use database" and the run the query without database name.
example :

use database;
Alter table tablename partition (ld_yr='2018',ld_mn='12',ld_dy='27') change columnA columnA varchar(64);

b) if you are running queries via hue then please select the database first from drop down and then run the query without database name.

Alter table tablename partition (ld_yr='2018',ld_mn='12',ld_dy='27') change columnA columnA varchar(64);