[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-21896) SHOW FUNCTIONS / SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE - clarify

["Miklos Gergely (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Miklos Gergely commented on HIVE-21896:
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[~ashutoshc] please decide what to accept as proper DDL, and what is not, then I'll do the code changes, and [~mulehoofs@gmail.com] can do the documentation changes.

> SHOW FUNCTIONS / SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE - clarify
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-21896
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21896
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Hive
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.1
>            Reporter: Miklos Gergely
>            Assignee: Ashutosh Chauhan
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 4.0.0
>
>
> According to [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-ShowFunctions] the currently available functions can be listed like this:
> {code:java}
> SHOW FUNCTIONS <pattern>;{code}
> If the user executes this command, they will get the correct list of functions, but they will also see this on the standard output:
> {code:java}
> SHOW FUNCTIONS is deprecated, please use SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE instead.{code}
> If the user uses the
> {code:java}
> SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE <pattern>;{code}
> command then they will receive the exact same result (though through different codes). The only difference is that one can get all the function names with "SHOW FUNCTIONS;", while "SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE;" returns an exception, so in this case the pattern is mandatory.
> So there should be a decision if we still accept "SHOW FUNCTIONS" without the "LIKE". My suggestion is to accept it only if there is no pattern. so "SHOW FUNCTIONS;" is ok, without deprecation message, but "SHOW FUNCTIONS <pattern>" should throw an exception.
> Whatever we decide, we should document it appropriately.
> cc [~krishahn]



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