[HIVE-17589] Beeline command line interface won't execute unterminated statements

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Beeline
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Zach Amsden
• Created: 23/Sep/17 02:16
• Updated: 23/Sep/17 02:16

Description

Beeline used to execute unterminated statements passed by command line, for example:

"DROP TABLE IF EXISTS functional_hbase.internal_hbase_table"

Now these statements do not execute unless terminated by a semicolon, as in:

"DROP TABLE IF EXISTS functional_hbase.internal_hbase_table;"

This is a behavioral regression that is almost certain to impact existing scripts, import jobs, etc. Downstream this broke Impala's data load when using an updated version of Hive.