Comments cannot be the first line of a file, if I recall correctly. The way that I put my name and email at the top is after a using statement for the database.
use default; -- John Doe, [email protected] -- (c) Acme co 2007 Select * from (...) Travis Travis Powell [email protected] (415) 488-7160 -----Original Message----- From: Satoshi Yamada [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 04:32 AM Pacific Standard Time To: [email protected] Subject: Re: comment out hive script file Thanks, Edward, and sorry for late reply. I want to add comment in the file using with "hive -f". $ cat sample_select.hql -- some commentSELECT something FROM sample_table; $ hive -f sample_select.hql Sample above does not work. Either "#" or "/* */" doesnot work. So, is there no way to add comment in the file? Thanks,satoshi --- On Wed, 2011/6/29, Edward Capriolo <[email protected]> wrote: There is a subtle nuance, comments can only appear before QL statements not set or add commands. Edward On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Satoshi Yamada <[email protected]> wrote: hi, Is there any way to comment out hive script file? Either "--" or "/* */" does not seem to work. Thanks in advance,satoshi
