title: User does not have privileges for ALTERTABLE_ADDCOLS while using spark.sql to read the data
body: <p>Select query in spark.sql is resulting in the following error: </p>
  
  <p><code>User *username* does not have privileges for ALTERTABLE_ADDCOLS</code></p>
  
  <p>Spark version - <code>2.1.0</code></p>
  
  <p>Trying to execute the following query:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dig = spark.sql("""select col1, col2 from dbname.tablename""")
  </code></pre>