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Work on HIVE-27361 started by Smruti Biswal. -------------------------------------------- > Add table level comments to Hive tables in SYS & Information schema databases > to make them self explanatory > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-27361 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-27361 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Hive > Reporter: Taraka Rama Rao Lethavadla > Assignee: Smruti Biswal > Priority: Minor > > All the backend database tables are available to query in Hive as external > tables in SYS and information_schema databases. We can add a table level > comment to each of the table while creating them in Hive, so that users can > do desc formatted table_name to check the information about that table -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)