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Peter Vary commented on HIVE-14146:
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[~trinevo]: This is fixed only in 2.3.0 and not backported to 1.x line, since
the solution depends on HIVE-14013 which fix is 2.3.0 only too...
> 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
> Fix For: 2.3.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-14146.10.patch, HIVE-14146.11.patch,
> 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-14146.9.patch, HIVE-14146.patch, changes
>
>
> 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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