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Jeremy Beard commented on HIVE-6684: ------------------------------------ The description doesn't render properly on my browser - the 2nd, 3rd and 5th lines of the example start with three spaces. > Beeline does not accept comments that are preceded by spaces > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-6684 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6684 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: CLI > Affects Versions: 0.10.0 > Reporter: Jeremy Beard > > Beeline throws an error if single-line comments are indented with spaces. > This works in the embedded Hive CLI. > For example: > SELECT > -- this is the field we want > field > FROM > table; > Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:71 > cannot recognize input near '<EOF>' '<EOF>' '<EOF>' in select clause > (state=42000,code=40000) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)