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Thejas M Nair commented on HIVE-5931: ------------------------------------- The reason why 'describe function <funcname>' works is that for some historic reason the keyword function was not marked as a non reserved keyword in IdentifiersParser.g. This is not the case with ROLE keyword. > SQL std auth - add metastore get_role_participants api - to support DESCRIBE > ROLE > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5931 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5931 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Authorization > Reporter: Thejas M Nair > Attachments: HIVE-5931.thriftapi.2.patch, > HIVE-5931.thriftapi.3.patch, HIVE-5931.thriftapi.followup.patch, > HIVE-5931.thriftapi.patch > > Original Estimate: 24h > Remaining Estimate: 24h > > This is necessary for DESCRIBE ROLE role statement. This will list > all users and roles that participate in a role. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)