[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-454?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12733976#action_12733976 ]
Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-454: -------------------------------------- That is a good point. However it seems that the CLIDriver will be have to change regardless. Since the CLIDriver is specifically splitting on ';' a statement like "set a=5; set b=8" gets passed as two separate qp.run()'s. > Support escaping of ; in strings in cli > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-454 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-454 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Clients > Affects Versions: 0.3.0 > Reporter: Ashish Thusoo > Assignee: Ashish Thusoo > Attachments: hive-454.patch > > > If ; appears in string literals in a query the hive cli is not able to escape > them properly. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.