Try using 'describe formatted' command i.e. describe formatted test Thanks and regards, Snehalata Deorukhkar
From: Chunky Gupta [mailto:chunky.gu...@vizury.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:47 PM 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. Confidential: This electronic message and all contents contain information from Syntel, Inc. which may be privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. The information is intended to be for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, copy, distribution or use of the contents of this message is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message and all copies.
