GitHub user Xoln opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/415
desc table Command optimize when execute desc table {table} , and the {table} is a partitioned table which has many partitions, it will read the partitions from meta and load very slow. desc table command did not show partitions' state, so not need to load these information. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/Xoln/hive origin/desc-optimizer Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/415.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #415 ---- commit f1e1e870be361a30ed32dda0172f803be0217d02 Author: zhongliang <xoln_ann@...> Date: 2018-08-13T08:26:10Z desc table Command optimize ---- ---