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Carl Steinbach commented on HIVE-1010: -------------------------------------- MySQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA views: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/information-schema.html There's been some discussion offline about supporting this using the JDO query language, i.e. expressing HiveQL queries against the INFORMATION_SCHEMA as JDOQL queries against the metastore. Additionally, supporting an INFORMATION_SCHEMA is probably the biggest missing piece that blocks grafting the PostgreSQL ODBC driver onto Hive (as has been done for LucidDB, H2, etc). > Implement INFORMATION_SCHEMA in Hive > ------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-1010 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1010 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Metastore, Query Processor, Server Infrastructure > Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher > > INFORMATION_SCHEMA is part of the SQL92 standard and would be useful to > implement using our metastore. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.