That's a great idea! We have a label for JIRAs suited to newcomers that want to experience the contribution process with a simple change.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-5146?jql=project%20%3D%20IMPALA%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20newbie Feel free to reach out if you need help. On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:14 PM, 吴朱华 <ikew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lars： > > I have checked the code, the feature may involve some changes on optimizer > or analyzer side. It's a big change. I am looking forward to make more > minor contribution, just to experience whole process^_^ > > 2017-04-06 21:20 GMT+08:00 Lars Volker <l...@cloudera.com>: > >> Adding support to expose the metadata as tables is tracked in IMPALA-1761 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-1761>. We would welcome >> your contribution to this. >> >> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Jeszy <jes...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey, >>> >>> that's not possible from within impala. If you go directly to the >>> HMS's backing DB, you can query that. >>> What information are you looking for? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:02 PM, 吴朱华 <ikew...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Hi guys: >>> > >>> > Currently, we are using "show databases","show tables" or "Describe >>> table" >>> > to retrieve table metadata, but we use such as "select * from >>> metadata" to >>> > retrieve, just like RDBMS did^_^ >>> >> >> >
