[HIVE-3140] Comment indenting is broken for "describe" in CLI

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0, 0.11.0
• Component/s: CLI
• Labels: patch
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Assignee: Zhenxiao Luo
• Reporter: Xiaoxiao Hou
• Created: 14/Jun/12 22:58
• Updated: 12/May/13 18:28
• Resolved: 07/Dec/12 17:21

Description

Just go into the CLI and type "describe [TABLE_NAME]". If a comment has multiple lines, it is completely unreadable due to poor comment indenting. For example:
birthdayParam string 1 = comment1
2 = comment2
3 = comment3

But it supposed to display as:
birthdayParam string 1 = comment1
2 = comment2
3 = comment3

Comments should be indented the same amount on each line, i.e., if the comment starts at row k for the first line of the comment, it should be indented by k on line 2.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-4545 HS2 should return describe table results without space padding
• relates to: HIVE-4191 describe table output always prints as if formatted keyword is specified