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Alan Gates commented on HIVE-20963:
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Zoltan is correct, // is not standard SQL. And Hive does support /* */ style,
as can be seen from some of the unit tests that use them, e.g. comment.q
> Handle C-Style comments in hive query
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> Key: HIVE-20963
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20963
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Parser
> Reporter: Shubhangi Pardeshi
> Priority: Major
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> h3. Problem
> Currently only Std. SQL. style comment i.e. "–" can be used in query.
> Requesting to add support for C-Style single line as well as multiline
> comments.
> 1. /* <comment text line1> */
> 2. /* <comment text line1>
> <comment text line2> */
> 3. // <comment text line1>
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