Andries, this is a known issue - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-2597
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Andries Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Kristine! > > > Any reason why we have 2 different syntaxes for comments, one for the > shell and one for sql files? > > sqlline shell uses # comment > sql file uses /* comment */ > > > —Andries > > > > > On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:31 AM, David Tucker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And that works … thank you Kristine ! > > > > > > On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Kristine Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The new docs http://tshiran.github.io/drill/docs/lexical-structure/ > will > >> say: > >> First paragraph, last bullet: /* This is a comment. */ > >> > >> Kristine Hahn > >> Sr. Technical Writer > >> 415-497-8107 @krishahn > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Andries Engelbrecht < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> How do you include SQL comments? > >>> > >>> Using # at the beginning of a line work in the SQLline shell, however > if > >>> it is part of a sql file the following error appears. > >>> > >>> cat comment.sql > >>> > >>> # comment > >>> select * from sys.version; > >>> > >>> 0: jdbc:drill:zk=drilldemo:5181> !run comment.sql > >>> 1/2 # comment > >>> Aborting command set because "force" is false and command failed: "# > >>> comment” > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> —Andries > >>> > >>> > > > >
