[HIVE-18811] Fix desc table, column comments are not displayed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.1, 2.3.2
• Component/s: CLI
• Labels: patch

Environment

CentOS 6.5

Hive-1.2.1

Hive-3.0.0

• Target Version/s: 3.0.0
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: tartarus
• Reporter: tartarus
• Created: 27/Feb/18 02:37
• Updated: 21/Oct/22 07:31

Description

when column comment contain \t 

eg: CREATE TABLE `zhangmang_test`(`name` string COMMENT 'name\tzm');

then execute : desc zhangmang_test 

return : name                string              name

because \t is the separator, so we should translate it