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Sergio Peña commented on HIVE-6683: ----------------------------------- It does not work. It does not throw an error though, but the results are not correct. The example is run in a table 'persons' with two rows only. {noformat} 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> select 1 from persons; +------+--+ | _c0 | +------+--+ | 1 | | 1 | +------+--+ 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .> 1 -- comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .> from persons; +------+--+ | _c0 | +------+--+ | 1 | +------+--+ {noformat} Although there are some different errors when using the column names or the *. {noformat} 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .> * -- comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .> from persons; Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException Line 0:-1 Invalid column reference 'TOK_ALLCOLREF' (state=42000,code=40000) 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000> select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .> id -- comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .> from persons; Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10004]: Line 1:7 Invalid table alias or column reference 'id': (possible column names are: ) (state=42000,code=10004) {noformat} > Beeline does not accept comments at end of line > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-6683 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6683 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: CLI > Affects Versions: 0.10.0 > Reporter: Jeremy Beard > > Beeline fails to read queries where lines have comments at the end. This > works in the embedded Hive CLI. > Example: > SELECT > 1 -- this is a comment about this value > FROM > table; > Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:36 > mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting FROM near '1' in from clause > (state=42000,code=40000) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)