"DESCRIBE EXTENDED table_name" does not show that compression is turned on.
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                 Key: HIVE-2250
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2250
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: CLI, Diagnosability
    Affects Versions: 0.7.0
         Environment: RHEL, Full Cloudera stack
            Reporter: Travis Powell
            Priority: Critical


Commands executed in this order:

user@node # hive
hive> SET hive.exec.compress.output=true; 
hive> SET io.seqfile.compression.type=BLOCK;
hive> CREATE TABLE table_name ( [...] ) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED 
BY '\t' STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE;
hive> CREATE TABLE staging_table ( [...] ) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS 
TERMINATED BY '\t';
hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'file:///root/input/' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE 
staging_table;
hive> INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE table_name SELECT * FROM staging_table;
(Map reduce job to change to sequence file...)
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, 
parameters:{serialization.format=   , field.delim=

*** SEE ABOVE: Compression is set to FALSE, even though contents of table is 
compressed.


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