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Thiruvel Thirumoolan commented on HIVE-558:
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Thanks for the feedback Namit.
Looks like I can reduce 'some' of the direct calls by getting properties
through Table.getSchema() and looking up for the properties defined in
Constants class. If something changes in future only MetaStoreUtils.getSchema()
would need change. That way I can also get the column names and types.
But I am not sure how to obtain the comments of the fields through this way or
through the way you suggested (couldnt find a related usage), any pointers
would be appreciated.
> describe extended table/partition output is cryptic
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> 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
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> 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.
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