[IMPALA-232] Clarify that Impala shell's "version" command return the shell version, not the Impala sever version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 0.6
• Fix Version/s: Impala 1.0
• Component/s: Clients
• Labels: shell
• Assignee: Lenni Kuff
• Reporter: Alan Choi
• Created: 11/Apr/13 21:33
• Updated: 28/Dec/15 17:43
• Resolved: 23/Apr/13 21:51

Description

It's not clear to me if the "version" command from the shell is referring to the Impala server or the shell. Maybe we can make it more clear by calling it "shell-version" instead of just version.

Also, when we start up shell with -i option, we see this:

alan@alan-OptiPlex-790:~/WorkDir/WorkSpace2/Impala$ bin/impala-shell.sh -i localhost:21000
Connected to localhost:21000
Welcome to the Impala shell. Press TAB twice to see a list of available commands.

Copyright (c) 2012 Cloudera, Inc. All rights reserved.

(Build version: Impala v0.6 (a538365) built on Wed Feb 13 11:35:56 PST 2013)
[localhost:21000] >

At first, I thought that it's showing the server version, but it's not. I think it's useful to show the server version when connected.