SHOW FUNCTIONS

Description

Returns the list of functions after applying an optional regex pattern. Given number of functions supported by Spark is quite large, this statement in conjunction with describe function may be used to quickly find the function and understand its usage. The LIKE clause is optional and supported only for compatibility with other systems.

Syntax

SHOW [ function_kind ] FUNCTIONS [ { FROM | IN } database_name ] [ LIKE regex_pattern ]

Parameters

Examples

-- List a system function `trim` by searching both user defined and system
-- defined functions.
SHOW FUNCTIONS trim;
+--------+
|function|
+--------+
|    trim|
+--------+

-- List a system function `concat` by searching system defined functions.
SHOW SYSTEM FUNCTIONS concat;
+--------+
|function|
+--------+
|  concat|
+--------+

-- List a qualified function `max` from database `salesdb`. 
SHOW SYSTEM FUNCTIONS FROM salesdb LIKE 'max';
+--------+
|function|
+--------+
|     max|
+--------+

-- List all functions starting with `t`
SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE 't*';
+-----------------+
|         function|
+-----------------+
|              tan|
|             tanh|
|        timestamp|
|          tinyint|
|           to_csv|
|          to_date|
|          to_json|
|     to_timestamp|
|to_unix_timestamp|
| to_utc_timestamp|
|        transform|
|   transform_keys|
| transform_values|
|        translate|
|             trim|
|            trunc|
|           typeof|
+-----------------+

-- List all functions starting with `yea` or `windo`
SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE 'yea*|windo*';
+--------+
|function|
+--------+
|  window|
|    year|
+--------+

-- Use normal regex pattern to list function names that has 4 characters
-- with `t` as the starting character.
SHOW FUNCTIONS LIKE 't[a-z][a-z][a-z]';
+--------+
|function|
+--------+
|    tanh|
|    trim|
+--------+