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Sergey Shelukhin commented on HIVE-11332: ----------------------------------------- If we had Unicode 8.0 support, you could even use this, which would improve some code vastly: 🦄 > Unicode table comments do not work > ---------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-11332 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-11332 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin > > Noticed by accident. > {noformat} > select '😾 ', count(*) from moo; > Query ID = sershe_20150721190413_979e1b6f-86d6-436f-b8e6-d6785b9d3b83 > Total jobs = 1 > Launching Job 1 out of 1 > [snip] > OK > 😾 0 > Time taken: 13.347 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s) > hive> ALTER TABLE moo SET TBLPROPERTIES ('comment' = '😾 '); > OK > Time taken: 0.292 seconds > hive> desc extended moo; > OK > i int > > Detailed Table Information Table(tableName:moo, dbName:default, > owner:sershe, createTime:1437519787, lastAccessTime:0, retention:0, > sd:StorageDescriptor(cols:[FieldSchema(name:i, type:int, comment:null)], > location:hdfs://cn108-10.l42scl.hortonworks.com:8020/apps/hive/warehouse/moo, > inputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat, > outputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat, > compressed:false, numBuckets:-1, serdeInfo:SerDeInfo(name:null, > serializationLib:org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe, > parameters:{serialization.format=1}), bucketCols:[], sortCols:[], > parameters:{}, skewedInfo:SkewedInfo(skewedColNames:[], skewedColValues:[], > skewedColValueLocationMaps:{}), storedAsSubDirectories:false), > partitionKeys:[], parameters:{last_modified_time=1437519883, totalSize=0, > numRows=-1, rawDataSize=-1, COLUMN_STATS_ACCURATE=false, numFiles=0, > transient_lastDdlTime=1437519883, comment=?? , last_modified_by=sershe}, > viewOriginalText:null, viewExpandedText:null, tableType:MANAGED_TABLE) > Time taken: 0.347 seconds, Fetched: 3 row(s) > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)