Github user gatorsmile commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14550
After an investigation, Hive does not have such a field. Thus, they also
put it in the table properties/parameters.
For example, this is the output of one table with table comment `d`
```
hive> desc formatted tab5;
OK
# col_name data_type comment
id int b
# Detailed Table Information
Database: default
Owner: root
CreateTime: Mon Aug 08 16:19:12 EDT 2016
LastAccessTime: UNKNOWN
Protect Mode: None
Retention: 0
Location:
hdfs://6b68a24121f4:9000/user/hive/warehouse/tab5
Table Type: MANAGED_TABLE
Table Parameters:
comment d
transient_lastDdlTime 1470687552
# Storage Information
SerDe Library:
org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe
InputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat
OutputFormat:
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat
Compressed: No
Num Buckets: -1
Bucket Columns: []
Sort Columns: []
Storage Desc Params:
serialization.format 1
```
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