GitHub user dilipbiswal opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12460
[SPARK-14127] Describe table ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? This PR adds .support for describing partitions and columns. Support for describing tables were already in place. The PR moves the code to SessionCatalog/HiveSessionCatalog. Command Syntax: ``` SQL DESCRIBE [EXTENDED|FORMATTED] [db_name.]table_name [column_name] [PARTITION partition_spec] ``` ## How was this patch tested? Added test cases to DDLCommandSuite to verify the plan. Added some error tests to HiveCommandSuite. The rest of the coverage should be from existing test cases. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dilipbiswal/spark dkb_desc_tbl Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12460.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #12460 ---- commit 5b349dae9f15e9c0e08c00d77d5baac6ae0d85a2 Author: Dilip Biswal <dbis...@us.ibm.com> Date: 2016-04-14T05:33:08Z [SPARK-14127] Describe table ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org