[IMPALA-251] impala-shell should allow to turn off pretty formatting

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: Impala 0.7
• Fix Version/s: Impala 1.0.1
• Component/s: Clients
• Labels: shell
• Assignee: Ishaan Joshi
• Reporter: Philip Martin
• Created: 14/Apr/13 22:39
• Updated: 28/Dec/15 17:43
• Resolved: 30/May/13 19:01

Description

In Impala 0.6, I got used to impala-shell simply tab-delimiting the output rows. This was easy to then pipe into other tools and process further. The newer impala-shell uses "prettytable" to make the output nicer looking, but I find myself missing the ability to get the simple form, especially when scripting. MySQL's option for this is "-B" (batch).