[HIVE-10277] Unable to process Comment line '--' in HIVE-1.1.0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: Hive
• Labels: hive
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Chinna Rao Lalam
• Reporter: Kaveen Raajan
• Created: 09/Apr/15 08:46
• Updated: 27/May/15 12:28

Description

I tried to use comment line (--) in HIVE-1.1.0 grunt shell like,
_{hive>--this is comment line
hive>show tables;}

I got error like

NoViableAltException(-1@[])
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:
1020)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:19
9)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:16
6)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:393)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:307)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1112)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1160)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1049)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1039)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:2
07)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:159)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:370)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:754
)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:615)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212)
FAILED: ParseException line 2:0 cannot recognize input near '<EOF>' '<EOF>' '<EO
F>'