As of Hive 0.13.0, user and role names may optionally be surrounded by backtick characters (`) when the configuration parameter hive.support.quoted.identifiers is set to column (default value). All Unicode characters are permitted in the quoted identifiers, with double backticks (``) representing a backtick character. However when hive.support.quoted.identifiers is set to none , or in Hive 0.12.0 and earlier, only alphanumeric and underscore characters are permitted in user names and role names. For details, see HIVE-6013 and Supporting Quoted Identifiers in Column Names. As of Hive 0.14, user may be optionally surrounded by backtick characters (`) irrespective of the hive.support.quoted.identifiers setting. |