[CASSANDRA-18586] CQLSH formatting output is incorrect when querying the system properties virtual table

• Type: Bug
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Tool/cqlsh
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Maxim Muzafarov
• Created: 12/Jun/23 17:02
• Updated: 14/Jun/23 11:49

Description

cqlsh produces incorrect output for the following query:

select * from system_views.system_properties;

See the screenshot:

The reason for this is that the java.class.path system property has a very long string representation value, so it breaks the formatting of the query result. Changing the output format from horizontal query output to vertical [1] doesn't help either.

The formatting must be fixed.

[1] https://docs.datastax.com/en/dse/5.1/cql/cql/cql_reference/cqlsh_commands/cqlshExpand.html