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Peter Vary commented on HIVE-21443: ----------------------------------- Sample output: {code:java} 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10003> select * from compactions; [..] +-------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------+---------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+---------------------------------+ | compactions.c_id | compactions.c_catalog | compactions.c_database | compactions.c_table | compactions.c_partition | compactions.c_type | compactions.c_state | compactions.c_hostname | compactions.c_worker_id | compactions.c_start | compactions.c_duration | compactions.c_hadoop_job_id | compactions.c_run_as | compactions.c_highest_write_id | +-------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------+---------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+---------------------------------+ | 1 | default | default | acid | NULL | minor | failed | PeterVary | MBP15.local | 1551275865000 | 11000 | NULL | petervary | 5 | | 10 | default | default | acid | NULL | major | failed | PeterVary | MBP15.local | 1551355199000 | 30000 | NULL | petervary | 5 | | 15 | default | default | acid | NULL | major | failed | PeterVary | MBP15.local | 1552074769000 | 22000 | NULL | petervary | 5 | | 16 | default | default | acid | NULL | major | working | PeterVary | MBP15.local | 1553716252000 | NULL | NULL | petervary | 5 | | 17 | default | default | acid2 | NULL | major | working | PeterVary | MBP15.local | 1553785387000 | NULL | NULL | petervary | 5 | | 18 | default | default | acid3 | NULL | major | initiated | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | | 19 | default | default | acid_buck | NULL | major | initiated | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | +-------------------+------------------------+-------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------+---------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+---------------------------------+ 7 rows selected (18.503 seconds) 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10003>{code} > Better usability for SHOW COMPACTIONS > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-21443 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21443 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Transactions > Reporter: Todd Lipcon > Assignee: Peter Vary > Priority: Major > Attachments: HIVE-21443.patch > > > Currently on a test cluster the output of 'SHOW COMPACTIONS' has 117k rows. > This makes it basically useless to work with. > For better usability, we should support syntax like 'SHOW COMPACTIONS IN > <database>' or maybe 'SHOW COMPACTIONS ON <table>' (particular syntax to be > chosen for consistency with other operations I suppose). > Alternatively (or maybe in addition) it seems like it would be nice to expose > the same data in a queryable table (eg in information_schema or a system > namespace) so that I could do things like: SELECT dbname, state, count(*) > from compactions group by 1,2; -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)