Thank you for pointing to beeline. will have a look at it. I would also have a look at Zeppelin as they took several classes of sqlline. At least I like their idea of completion for sql [1].
[1] https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/blob/0d746fa2e2787a661db70d74035120ae3516ace3/jdbc/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/jdbc/SqlCompleter.java On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:33 PM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > As you may know, Hive has its own fork of sqlline called beeline. The code > bases forked about 4 years ago and combining them again is unlikely. The > Hive community continues to develop Beeline; some of the features are > Hive-specific, but others are bug-fixes for core functionality or > generally-useful features. > > As Sergey and Arina are actively seeking to improve sqlline (thanks again, > by the way!) I thought that this might be a low effort/high value avenue to > explore. > > The first step would be to review commits to Hive's “beeline” module[1] > over the last 2 or 3 years and see if there are any changes of interest. > > If any Hive developers have an issue with this, please speak up. We are > allowed to take Hive code under the Apache license but we don’t want to > offend anyone. Any PRs we generate from this will of course mention the > original author and the fact that it came from Hive. > > Julian > > [1] https://github.com/apache/hive/tree/master/beeline < > https://github.com/apache/hive/tree/master/beeline> > > -- Best regards, Sergey
