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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-6684:
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[~leftylev] Comments are applicable to script from -e, -f, jdbc, or beeline.
The bug was probably there since day one.
> Beeline does not accept comments that are preceded by spaces
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>
> Key: HIVE-6684
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6684
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: CLI
> Affects Versions: 0.10.0
> Reporter: Jeremy Beard
> Attachments: HIVE-6684.1.patch, HIVE-6684.2.patch
>
>
> Beeline throws an error if single-line comments are indented with spaces.
> This works in the embedded Hive CLI.
> For example:
> SELECT
> -- this is the field we want
> field
> FROM
> table;
> Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:71
> cannot recognize input near '<EOF>' '<EOF>' '<EOF>' in select clause
> (state=42000,code=40000)
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