Peter Vary created HIVE-14146: --------------------------------- Summary: Column comments with "\n" character "corrupts" table metadata Key: HIVE-14146 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14146 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Beeline Affects Versions: 2.2.0 Reporter: Peter Vary Assignee: Peter Vary
Create a table with the following(noting the \n in the COMMENT): {noformat} CREATE TABLE commtest(first_nm string COMMENT 'Indicates First name\nof an individual’); {noformat} Describe shows that now the metadata is messed up: {noformat} beeline> describe commtest; +-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+ | col_name | data_type | comment | +-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+ | first_nm | string | Indicates First name | | of an individual | NULL | NULL | +-------------------+------------+-----------------------+--+ {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)