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Shannon Ladymon commented on HIVE-12184: ---------------------------------------- [~ngangam], thanks for the info. Just a few more clarifications: (1) Can describe partition also accept specifications for the column field name, element, key, and value the way that describe table/view/column can? (2) What is the field name option? The wiki has brief descriptions of the other options, but that not that one. I like your idea of separating the two methods of specifying column (with DB and without) with a brief explanation. I'll make that change to both describe table/view/column and describe partition. > DESCRIBE of fully qualified table fails when db and table name match and > non-default database is in use > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-12184 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12184 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: SQL > Affects Versions: 1.2.1 > Reporter: Lenni Kuff > Assignee: Naveen Gangam > Fix For: 2.0.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-12184.10.patch, HIVE-12184.10.patch, > HIVE-12184.2.patch, HIVE-12184.3.patch, HIVE-12184.4.patch, > HIVE-12184.5.patch, HIVE-12184.6.patch, HIVE-12184.7.patch, > HIVE-12184.8.patch, HIVE-12184.9.patch, HIVE-12184.patch > > > DESCRIBE of fully qualified table fails when db and table name match and > non-default database is in use. > Repro: > {code} > : jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default> create database foo; > No rows affected (0.116 seconds) > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default> create table foo.foo(i int); > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default> describe foo.foo; > +-----------+------------+----------+--+ > | col_name | data_type | comment | > +-----------+------------+----------+--+ > | i | int | | > +-----------+------------+----------+--+ > 1 row selected (0.049 seconds) > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default> use foo; > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default> describe foo.foo; > Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code > 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Error in getting fields from > serde.Invalid Field foo (state=08S01,code=1) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)