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Viewing Table Structures Using the show create Statement as Users with the select Permission

Scenario

This function is applicable to Hive and Spark2x in.

With this function enabled, if the select permission is granted to a user during Hive table creation, the user can run the show create table command to view the table structure.

Procedure

  1. Log in to FusionInsight Manager. For details, see Accessing FusionInsight Manager. Choose Cluster > Services > Hive > Configurations > All Configurations.
  2. Choose HiveServer(Role) > Customization, add a customized parameter to the hive-site.xml parameter file, set Name to hive.allow.show.create.table.in.select.nogrant, and set Value to true. Restart all Hive instances after the modification.
  3. Determine whether to enable this function on the Spark2x client.

    • If yes, download and install the Spark2x client again.
    • If no, no further action is required.

Parent topic: Using Hive