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desc Table Cannot Be Completely Displayed
Updated on 2022-09-14 GMT+08:00
desc Table Cannot Be Completely Displayed
Symptom
How do I make sure that the description is completely displayed when the desc table is too long?
Procedure
- When starting Beeline of Hive, set maxWidth to 20000.
[root@192-168-1-18 logs]# beeline --maxWidth=20000 scan complete in 3ms Connecting to ... Beeline version 1.1.0 by Apache Hive
- (Optional) Run the beeline -help command to view the client display settings.
-u <database url> the JDBC URL to connect to -n <username> the username to connect as -p <password> the password to connect as -d <driver class> the driver class to use -i <init file> script file for initialization -e <query> query that should be executed -f <exec file> script file that should be executed --hiveconf property=value Use value for given property --color=[true/false] control whether color is used for display --showHeader=[true/false] show column names in query results --headerInterval=ROWS; the interval between which heades are displayed --fastConnect=[true/false] skip building table/column list for tab-completion --autoCommit=[true/false] enable/disable automatic transaction commit --verbose=[true/false] show verbose error messages and debug info --showWarnings=[true/false] display connection warnings --showNestedErrs=[true/false] display nested errors --numberFormat=[pattern] format numbers using DecimalFormat pattern --force=[true/false] continue running script even after errors --maxWidth=MAXWIDTH the maximum width of the terminal --maxColumnWidth=MAXCOLWIDTH the maximum width to use when displaying columns --silent=[true/false] be more silent --autosave=[true/false] automatically save preferences --outputformat=[table/vertical/csv2/tsv2/dsv/csv/tsv] format mode for result display Note that csv, and tsv are deprecated - use csv2, tsv2 instead --truncateTable=[true/false] truncate table column when it exceeds length --delimiterForDSV=DELIMITER specify the delimiter for delimiter-separated values output format (default: |) --isolation=LEVEL set the transaction isolation level --nullemptystring=[true/false] set to true to get historic behavior of printing null as empty string --socketTimeOut=n socket connection timeout interval, in second. The default value is 300.
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