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Syed S. Albiz commented on HIVE-1926: ------------------------------------- I have a fix for this as part of HIVE-1953, patch currently waiting for review. I have tested the fix for both reported error cases and it seems to fix the reported errors. > semicolon in comment causes parse error > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1926 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1926 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: dan f > > semicolons in sql comments cause a parse error when trying to execute the > query via hive -f > As an example, this query runs fine: > -- a safe comment > select * from table; > but this query > -- an unsafe comment; > select * from table; > results in: > FAILED: Parse Error: line 0:-1 cannot recognize input '<EOF>' -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira