You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@hive.apache.org by "Zhenxiao Luo (Assigned) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2012/02/08 02:01:08 UTC

[jira] [Assigned] (HIVE-1977) DESCRIBE TABLE syntax doesn't support specifying a database qualified table name

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1977?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Zhenxiao Luo reassigned HIVE-1977:
----------------------------------

    Assignee: Zhenxiao Luo
    
> DESCRIBE TABLE syntax doesn't support specifying a database qualified table name
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-1977
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1977
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Query Processor, SQL
>            Reporter: Carl Steinbach
>            Assignee: Zhenxiao Luo
>
> The syntax for DESCRIBE is broken. It should be:
> {code}
> DESCRIBE [EXTENDED] [database DOT]table [column]
> {code}
> but is actually
> {code}
> DESCRIBE [EXTENDED] table[DOT col_name]
> {code}
> Ref: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/describe.html

--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira