Peter Vary created HIVE-14146:
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Summary: Column comments with "\n" character "corrupts" table
metadata
Key: HIVE-14146
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14146
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Beeline
Affects Versions: 2.2.0
Reporter: Peter Vary
Assignee: Peter Vary
Create a table with the following(noting the \n in the COMMENT):
{noformat}
CREATE TABLE commtest(first_nm string COMMENT 'Indicates First name\nof an
individual’);
{noformat}
Describe shows that now the metadata is messed up:
{noformat}
beeline> describe commtest;
+-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+
| col_name | data_type | comment |
+-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+
| first_nm | string | Indicates First name |
| of an individual | NULL | NULL |
+-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+
{noformat}
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