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Alan Gates commented on HIVE-20963: ----------------------------------- Zoltan is correct, // is not standard SQL. And Hive does support /* */ style, as can be seen from some of the unit tests that use them, e.g. comment.q > Handle C-Style comments in hive query > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-20963 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20963 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Parser > Reporter: Shubhangi Pardeshi > Priority: Major > > h3. Problem > Currently only Std. SQL. style comment i.e. "–" can be used in query. > Requesting to add support for C-Style single line as well as multiline > comments. > 1. /* <comment text line1> */ > 2. /* <comment text line1> > <comment text line2> */ > 3. // <comment text line1> > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)