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Sergio Peña commented on HIVE-8182: ----------------------------------- I see. Yes, the issue is the trailing spaces at the right of the semi-colon. 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> select * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .> from persons;<SPACE> Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:21 cannot recognize input near 'persons' ';' '<EOF>' in from source (state=42000,code=40000) Thanks Brock. > beeline fails when executing multiple-line queries with trailing spaces > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-8182 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8182 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.12.0, 0.13.1 > Reporter: Yongzhi Chen > > As title indicates, when executing a multi-line query with trailing spaces, > beeline reports syntax error: > Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:76 > extraneous input ';' expecting EOF near '<EOF>' (state=42000,code=40000) > If put this query in one single line, beeline succeeds to execute it. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)