[jira] Assigned: (HIVE-559) Support JDBC ResultSetMetadata

["Min Zhou (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-559?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Min Zhou reassigned HIVE-559:
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    Assignee: Min Zhou

> Support JDBC ResultSetMetadata
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-559
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-559
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Clients
>            Reporter: Bill Graham
>            Assignee: Min Zhou
>
> Support ResultSetMetadata for JDBC ResultSets. The getColumn* methods would be particularly useful I'd expect:
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/ResultSetMetaData.html
> The challenge as I see it though, is that the JDBC client only has access to the raw query string and the result data when running in standalone mode. Therefore, it will need to get the column metadata one of two way: 
> 1. By parsing the query to determine the tables/columns involved and then making a request to the metastore to get the metadata for the columns. This certainly feels like duplicate work, since the query of course gets properly parsed on the server.
> 2. By returning the column metadata from the server. My thrift knowledge is limited, but I suspect adding this to the response would present other challenges.
> Any thoughts or suggestions? Option #1 feels clunkier, yet safer.

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