[CARBONDATA-2762] Long string column displayed as string in describe formatted

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1
• Component/s: data-query
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chetan Bhat
• Due: 03/Aug/18
• Created: 20/Jul/18 05:02
• Updated: 30/Aug/18 11:49
• Resolved: 06/Aug/18 08:03

Description

Steps :

User creates a table with long string column and executes the describe formatted table command.

0: jdbc:hive2://10.18.98.101:22550/default> create table t2(c1 string, c2 string) stored by 'carbondata' tblproperties('long_string_columns' = 'c2');
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Result

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No rows selected (3.034 seconds)

0: jdbc:hive2://10.18.98.101:22550/default> desc formatted t2;

Actual Output : The describe formatted displays the c2 column as string instead of long string.

0: jdbc:hive2://10.18.98.101:22550/default> desc formatted t2;
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

col_name

data_type

comment

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c1

string

KEY COLUMN,null

| c2 | string | KEY COLUMN,null |

##Detailed Table Information
Database Name	default
Table Name	t2
CARBON Store Path	hdfs://hacluster/user/hive/warehouse/carbon.store/default/t2
Comment
Table Block Size	1024 MB
Table Data Size	0
Table Index Size	0
Last Update Time	0
SORT_SCOPE	LOCAL_SORT	LOCAL_SORT
CACHE_LEVEL	BLOCK
Streaming	false
Local Dictionary Enabled	true
Local Dictionary Threshold	10000
Local Dictionary Include	c1,c2
##Detailed Column property
ADAPTIVE
SORT_COLUMNS	c1

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22 rows selected (2.847 seconds)

 

Expected Output : The describe formatted should display the c2 column as long string.

Issue Links

• is related to: CARBONDATA-2420 Support string longer than 32000 characters