Jeremy Beard created HIVE-6684: ---------------------------------- Summary: Beeline does not accept comments that are preceded by spaces Key: HIVE-6684 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6684 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: CLI Affects Versions: 0.10.0 Reporter: Jeremy Beard
Beeline throws an error if single-line comments are indented with spaces. This works in the embedded Hive CLI. For example: SELECT -- this is the field we want field FROM table; Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:71 cannot recognize input near '<EOF>' '<EOF>' '<EOF>' in select clause (state=42000,code=40000) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)