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Peter Vary updated HIVE-14146:
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Attachment: HIVE-14146.8.patch
In BeeLine every newline is displayed with \n
In CLI the table and the view related commands will display the newlines as
newlines, the index, and database related commands will display as \n-s
> Column comments with "\n" character "corrupts" table metadata
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>
> Key: HIVE-14146
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14146
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Beeline
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0
> Reporter: Peter Vary
> Assignee: Peter Vary
> Attachments: HIVE-14146.2.patch, HIVE-14146.3.patch,
> HIVE-14146.4.patch, HIVE-14146.5.patch, HIVE-14146.6.patch,
> HIVE-14146.7.patch, HIVE-14146.8.patch, HIVE-14146.patch
>
>
> Create a table with the following(noting the \n in the COMMENT):
> {noformat}
> CREATE TABLE commtest(first_nm string COMMENT 'Indicates First name\nof an
> individual’);
> {noformat}
> Describe shows that now the metadata is messed up:
> {noformat}
> beeline> describe commtest;
> +-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+
> | col_name | data_type | comment |
> +-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+
> | first_nm | string | Indicates First name |
> | of an individual | NULL | NULL |
> +-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+
> {noformat}
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