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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-2949:
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According to [~navis]'s comment on HIVE-6187 backticks worked for DESCRIBE in
trunk on 13/Jan/2014 so that means the fix was included in Hive 0.13.0,
released 21/Apr/2014.
It may have been fixed by HIVE-6013 (Supporting Quoted Identifiers in Column
Names), committed to trunk 19/Dec/2013.
> bug with describe and reserved keyword
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>
> Key: HIVE-2949
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2949
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Fabian Alenius
> Priority: Minor
>
> Hi,
> there seems to an issue with the describe statement and using reserved
> keywords for tablenames.
> Specifically, describe does not seem to work on a table called 'user' even
> though it's escaped in the query.
> So this works:
> show partitions `user`;
> But this does not work:
> describe `user`;
> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask
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