Posted the same issue on Stackoverflow so that I can update the detail. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57250948/performance-issue-about-describe-formatted-query
BR, Yuya On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:22 PM Yuya Ebihara <eby...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, this is my first post to Hive community. > > We faced performance issue about DESC FORMATTED a table having a lot of > partitions on Hive 1.2.1000. > It tries to get partition names as the internal code and it takes few > minutes, but I don't think the operation is necessary. Is there a way to > avoid it? > > This issue happens on only interactive Hiveserver2 and just Hiveserver2 is > not problem. > > BR, > Yuya Ebihara >