[HIVE-14862] Problems handling escaped quotes within strings

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: hpl/sql
• Assignee: Dmitry Tolpeko
• Reporter: Maxim Glukhov
• Created: 29/Sep/16 22:00
• Updated: 11/Sep/17 15:28

Description

It seems that hpl/sql is not properly handling escaped quotes when it happens exactly at the string end. In example below, first command produces correct result, while second command produces invalid result:

PRINT ''' ';
PRINT '''';