[IMPALA-116] The impala shell should take of strings with tabs for output formatting.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: Impala 0.6
• Fix Version/s: Product Backlog
• Assignee: Ishaan Joshi
• Reporter: Ishaan Joshi
• Created: 07/Mar/13 19:06
• Updated: 14/Jun/17 21:01
• Resolved: 05/Dec/14 08:16

Description

beeswax returns table rows as tab delimited strings. This makes splitting a result row into columns impossible for string columns with tabs in them. This will go away when we move to hiveserver2.

Hue has a similar problem: https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/HUE-1049

Issue Links

• relates to: IMPALA-2998 impala-shell -B and --output_delimiter does not work if string contains delimiter or TABs
• relates to: IMPALA-1840 impala-shell always treats tab as column boundaries and adds delimiter