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Tim Armstrong commented on IMPALA-6686:
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[~csringhofer] I think it's OK to change. We can keep the "formatted" output in 
the row-oriented format, maybe, as a fallback option (Hive doesn't have that).

{noformat}
[localhost.EXAMPLE.COM:21000] default> describe database functional;
Query: describe database functional
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
| name       | location                                             | comment |
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
| functional | hdfs://172.19.0.1:20500/test-warehouse/functional.db |         |
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
Fetched 1 row(s) in 0.01s
[localhost.EXAMPLE.COM:21000] default> describe database extended functional;
Query: describe database extended functional
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
| name       | location                                             | comment |
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
| functional | hdfs://172.19.0.1:20500/test-warehouse/functional.db |         |
| Owner:     |                                                      |         |
|            | tarmstrong                                           | USER    |
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
Fetched 3 row(s) in 0.01s
[localhost.EXAMPLE.COM:21000] default> describe database formatted functional;
Query: describe database formatted functional
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
| name       | location                                             | comment |
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
| functional | hdfs://172.19.0.1:20500/test-warehouse/functional.db |         |
| Owner:     |                                                      |         |
|            | tarmstrong                                           | USER    |
+------------+------------------------------------------------------+---------+
Fetched 3 row(s) in 0.01s
{noformat}

> Change the DESCRIBE DATABASE output to look more like Hive output
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IMPALA-6686
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-6686
>             Project: IMPALA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Frontend
>            Reporter: Fredy Wijaya
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: compatibility, incompatibility
>
> In Hive:
> {noformat}
> describe database functional;
> +----------+----------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
> | db_name  | comment  | location                                       | 
> owner_name  | owner_type  | parameters  |
> +----------+----------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
> | tpch     |          | hdfs://localhost:20500/test-warehouse/tpch.db  | foo  
>        | USER        |             |
> +----------+----------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+{noformat}
> In Impala:
> {noformat}
> describe database extended functional;
> +---------+-----------------------------------------------+---------+
> | name    | location                                      | comment |
> +---------+-----------------------------------------------+---------+
> | tpch    | hdfs://localhost:20500/test-warehouse/tpch.db |         |
> | Owner:  |                                               |         |
> |         | foo                                           | USER    |
> +---------+-----------------------------------------------+---------+
> {noformat}



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