Hi Gupta You can the describe output in a formatted way using
DESCRIBE FORMATTED <table name>; Regards Bejoy KS Sent from remote device, Please excuse typos -----Original Message----- From: Chunky Gupta <chunky.gu...@vizury.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:46:30 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Adding comment to a table for columns Hi, I am using this syntax to add comments for all columns :- CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test ( c STRING COMMENT 'Common class', time STRING COMMENT 'Common time', url STRING COMMENT 'Site URL' ) PARTITIONED BY (dt STRING ) LOCATION 's3://BucketName/' Output of Describe Extended table is like :- (Output is just an example copied from internet) hive> DESCRIBE EXTENDED table_name; Detailed Table Information Table(tableName:table_name, dbName:benchmarking, owner:root, createTime:1309480053, lastAccessTime:0, retention:0, sd:StorageDescriptor(cols:[FieldSchema(name:session_key, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:remote_address, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:canister_lssn, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:canister_session_id, type:bigint, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:tltsid, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:tltuid, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:tltvid, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:canister_server, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:session_timestamp, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:session_duration, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:hit_count, type:bigint, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:http_user_agent, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:extractid, type:bigint, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:site_link, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:dt, type:string, comment:null), FieldSchema(name:hour, type:int, comment:null)], location:hdfs://hadoop2/user/hive/warehouse/benchmarking.db/table_name, inputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat, outputFormat:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveSequenceFileOutputFormat, compressed:false, numBuckets:-1, serdeInfo:SerDeInfo(name:null, serializationLib:org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe) Is there any way of getting this detailed comments and column name in readable format, just like the output of "Describe table_name" ?. Thanks, Chunky.
