[HADOOP-4307] add an option to describe table to show extended properties of the table such as serialization/deserialization properties

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.19.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
• Assignee: Prasad Chakka
• Reporter: Prasad Chakka
• Created: 29/Sep/08 17:48
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 17:06
• Resolved: 21/Oct/08 19:05

Description

support statement like below
describe extended table_name_abc

this should print all the properties of the table instead of just the columns.