[HIVE-2949] bug with describe and reserved keyword

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Parser
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Fabian Alenius
• Created: 12/Apr/12 12:07
• Updated: 27/Jan/15 15:51
• Resolved: 27/Jan/15 15:50

Description

Hi,

there seems to an issue with the describe statement and using reserved keywords for tablenames.

Specifically, describe does not seem to work on a table called 'user' even though it's escaped in the query.

So this works:
show partitions `user`;

But this does not work:
describe `user`;
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-6187 Add test to verify that DESCRIBE TABLE works with quoted table names
• relates to: HIVE-6013 Supporting Quoted Identifiers in Column Names