Github user wzhfy commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16422#discussion_r125805788 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/SparkSqlParser.scala --- @@ -320,10 +320,15 @@ class SparkSqlAstBuilder(conf: SQLConf) extends AstBuilder(conf) { * Create a [[DescribeTableCommand]] logical plan. */ override def visitDescribeTable(ctx: DescribeTableContext): LogicalPlan = withOrigin(ctx) { - // Describe column are not supported yet. Return null and let the parser decide - // what to do with this (create an exception or pass it on to a different system). if (ctx.describeColName != null) { - null + if (ctx.partitionSpec != null) { + throw new ParseException("DESC TABLE COLUMN for a specific partition is not supported", ctx) + } else { + DescribeColumnCommand( + visitTableIdentifier(ctx.tableIdentifier), + ctx.describeColName.getText, + ctx.FORMATTED != null) --- End diff -- I just tested in hive 2.1, it only show detailed column info with `formatted`, shall we keep the same as hive? ``` hive> desc test key; OK key int from deserializer Time taken: 0.063 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s) hive> desc extended test key; OK key int from deserializer Time taken: 0.053 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s) hive> desc formatted test key; OK # col_name data_type min max num_nulls distinct_count avg_col_len max_col_len num_trues num_falses comment key int 1 2 0 2 from deserializer Time taken: 0.067 seconds, Fetched: 3 row(s) ```
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