[IMPALA-1682] Support '\G' in shell

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.1
• Fix Version/s: Impala 4.2.0
• Component/s: Clients
• Labels: shell
• Target Version: Impala 4.2.0
• Assignee: XiangYang
• Reporter: Philip Martin
• Created: 22/Jan/15 19:25
• Updated: 22/Jul/22 03:19
• Resolved: 22/Jun/22 02:27

Description

MySQL has a feature \G to return query results in the transform, with one column per line, like so:

mysql> select * from tests limit 1 \G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
           id: 2
       run_id: 1
       module: test_activity_monitoring
        class: ActivityMonitoringTests
         func: test_kill_job
   start_time: 2012-08-07 10:45:37
     end_time: 2012-08-07 10:46:06
       result: pass
error_message: NULL
   stacktrace: NULL
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

Issue Links

• is related to: IMPALA-1096 impala-shell: add support for record view (extended / vertical display)
• relates to: IMPALA-11380 impala-shell's VerticalOutputFormatter may incorrectly strip trailing whitespace