Adding support to expose the metadata as tables is tracked in IMPALA-1761 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-1761>. We would welcome your contribution to this.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Jeszy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > that's not possible from within impala. If you go directly to the > HMS's backing DB, you can query that. > What information are you looking for? > > Thanks. > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:02 PM, 吴朱华 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys: > > > > Currently, we are using "show databases","show tables" or "Describe > table" > > to retrieve table metadata, but we use such as "select * from metadata" > to > > retrieve, just like RDBMS did^_^ >
