在 Hive table 上创建视图:每个变量的注释都丢失了

create view on Hive table: comment for each variable are lost

我创建了一个 Hive table,我们在 "comment" 字段中为每个变量添加了一些描述,如下所示:

spark.sql("create table test_comment (col string comment 'col comment') comment 'hello world table comment ' ")
spark.sql("describe test_comment").show()
+--------+---------+-----------+
|col_name|data_type|    comment|
+--------+---------+-----------+
|     col|   string|col comment|
+--------+---------+-----------+

一切正常,我们在变量 "col".

的注释字段中看到注释 "col comment"

现在,当我在此 table 上创建视图时,"comment" 字段不会传播到视图并且 "comment" 列为空:

spark.sql("""create view test_comment_view as select * from test_comment""")
spark.sql("describe test_comment_view")

+--------+---------+-------+
|col_name|data_type|comment|
+--------+---------+-------+
|     col|   string|   null|
+--------+---------+-------+

有没有办法在创建视图时保留评论字段的值?这个"feature"是什么原因?

我正在使用:

Hadoop 2.6.0-cdh5.8.0

配置单元 1.1.0-cdh5.8.0

Spark 2.1.0.cloudera1

我观察到的是,即使在从另一个 table 创建 table 时,注释也不会被继承。看起来这是默认行为。

create table t1 like another_table 
desc t1  //includes comments
+-----------+------------+------------------+--+
| col_name  | data_type  |     comment      |
+-----------+------------+------------------+--+
| id        | int        | new employee id  |
| name      | string     | employee name    |
+-----------+------------+------------------+--+

create table t1 as select * from another_table
desc t1 //excludes comments
+-----------+------------+----------+--+
| col_name  | data_type  | comment  |
+-----------+------------+----------+--+
| id        | int        |          |
| name      | string     |          |
+-----------+------------+----------+--+

但有一个解决方法。您可以在创建视图时指定带有注释的个别列

create view v2(id2 comment 'vemp id', name2 comment 'vemp name') as select * from another_table;

+-----------+------------+------------+--+
| col_name  | data_type  |  comment   |
+-----------+------------+------------+--+
| id2       | int        | vemp id    |
| name2     | string     | vemp name  |
+-----------+------------+------------+--+