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Fabian Alenius updated HIVE-2949: --------------------------------- Affects Version/s: (was: 0.7.1) > bug with describe and reserved keyword > -------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2949 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2949 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Fabian Alenius > Priority: Minor > > Hi, > there seems to an issue with the describe statement and using reserved > keywords for tablenames. > Specifically, describe does not seem to work on a table called 'user' even > though it's escaped in the query. > So this works: > show partitions `user`; > But this does not work: > describe `user`; > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira