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David Zanter commented on HIVE-2949: ------------------------------------ Allowing backtick will fix this as well. > 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 was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)