[HIVE-2909] SHOW COLUMNS table_name; to provide a comma-delimited list of columns.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Assignee: Namit Jain
• Reporter: Adam Kramer
• Created: 27/Mar/12 20:22
• Updated: 10/Jan/13 19:54
• Resolved: 24/Jul/12 19:02

Description

Due to the way that SELECT * and partitioning works, it is frequently obnoxious to insert data into tables of the same schema.

This could be fixed in a number of ways, all murky; this feature request reduces the obnoxicity of the current situation.

SHOW COLUMNS foo;
OK
bar, baz, tball, ds

...then I could just copy the first three and not the last.