[IMPALA-4506] Make "tip of the day" message respect --quiet option

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.8.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.11.0
• Component/s: Clients
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Jin Chul Kim
• Reporter: John Russell
• Created: 17/Nov/16 18:48
• Updated: 01/Dec/17 00:29
• Resolved: 01/Dec/17 00:29

Description

I often use impala-shell --quiet to capture impala-shell output with the minimal amount of extraneous info. However, the "tip of the day" message is still displayed regardless of the --quiet setting. Could that message be suppressed when --quiet is in effect?

For example, this startup message about the SET command is a randomly generated "tip of the day":

$ impala-shell -i localhost --quiet
Starting Impala Shell without Kerberos authentication
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Welcome to the Impala shell.
(Impala Shell v2.8.0-SNAPSHOT (0d75dd8) built on Mon Oct 24 05:00:59 PDT 2016)

The SET command shows the current value of all shell and query options.
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