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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-558: --------------------------------- Thiruvel, thanks a lot for picking up this one. This will be extremely helpful. Instead of hardcoding in MetaDataFormatUtils, it might be a good idea to get the schema from the decsriptor. For eg, DescTableDesc, ShowTablesDesc etc. all contain a schema - this way if the schema changes in future, your code will continue to work > describe extended table/partition output is cryptic > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-558 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-558 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Prasad Chakka > Attachments: HIVE-558_PrelimPatch.patch, SampleOutputDescribe.txt > > > describe extended table prints out the Thrift metadata object directly. The > information from it is not easy to read or parse. Output should be easily > read and can be simple parsed to get table location etc by programs. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.