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Paul Rogers resolved IMPALA-8051.
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Resolution: Fixed
> Compute stats fails on a column with comment character in name
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> Key: IMPALA-8051
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-8051
> Project: IMPALA
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Frontend
> Affects Versions: Impala 3.1.0
> Reporter: Paul Rogers
> Assignee: Paul Rogers
> Priority: Minor
>
> Problem - "compute stats" query executed on a table containing a special
> character "#" in one of its columns is failing with below error:
> WARNINGS: AnalysisException: Syntax error in line 1:
> ...length(cola)), NDV(colb#) AS colb#, CAST(-1 as BIG...
> ^
> Encountered: Unexpected character
> Expected: ADD, ALTER, AND, ARRAY, AS, ASC, BETWEEN, BIGINT, BINARY,
> BLOCK_SIZE, BOOLEAN, CACHED, CASCADE, CHANGE, CHAR, COMMENT, COMPRESSION,
> CROSS, DATE, DATETIME, DECIMAL, DEFAULT, DESC, DIV, REAL, DROP, ELSE,
> ENCODING, END, FLOAT, FOLLOWING, FROM, FULL, GROUP, IGNORE, HAVING, ILIKE,
> IN, INNER, INTEGER, IREGEXP, IS, JOIN, LEFT, LIKE, LIMIT, LOCATION, MAP, NOT,
> NULL, NULLS, OFFSET, ON, OR, ORDER, PARTITION, PARTITIONED, PRECEDING,
> PRIMARY, PURGE, RANGE, RECOVER, REGEXP, RENAME, REPLACE, RESTRICT, RIGHT,
> RLIKE, ROW, ROWS, SELECT, SET, SMALLINT, SORT, STORED, STRAIGHT_JOIN, STRING,
> STRUCT, TABLESAMPLE, TBLPROPERTIES, THEN, TIMESTAMP, TINYINT, TO, UNCACHED,
> UNION, USING, VALUES, VARCHAR, WHEN, WHERE, WITH, COMMA, IDENTIFIER
> Steps to reproduce the issue -
> # Create a table containing special character in one of it columns from Hive.
> For example:
> {code:sql}
> CREATE TABLE test_special_character (`id#` int);
> {code}
> # Execute "INVALIDATE METADATA test_special_character" from Impala.
> # Execute "COMPUTE STATS test_special_character" from Impala and it'll lead
> to above mentioned error.
> Impala does not allow to create tables with columns containing special
> characters but Hive allows it by using back ticks (``) to escape it. However,
> Impala still can load the metadata of table and can read from column
> containing special character as well by escaping the special character using
> back ticks (``). For example, below query can be executed from Impala -
> {code:sql}
> select `id#` from test_special_character;
> {code}
> However, when "compute stats" command is executed, the query triggered by
> this command to compute column-level stats does not use back ticks to escape
> the special character present in one of the columns as it does not know that
> column contains a special character and this is the cause of this issue.
> (Reported by a user.)
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