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Nemon Lou commented on HIVE-12615: ---------------------------------- [~xuefuz] Thanks for your attention .It's a good idea to show the parallelism in "explain extended". I will provide a patch which prevent unnecessary spark session creation when explain without extended . > Do not start spark session when only explain > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-12615 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12615 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Spark > Affects Versions: 1.3.0, 2.1.0 > Reporter: Nemon Lou > > When using beeline -e "set hive.execution.engine=spark;explain select > count(*) from sometable",it's very slow due to starting of spark session on > yarn. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)