I've tried to do this many times and failed every time - there's just not much information on Impala out there.
Trying to set a live progress or live summary query option in Impala shell - the command appears to work, although no confirmation displays after executing:
set live_progress=true;
set live_summary=true;
Could be a permissions issue - I am not familiar with how to troubleshoot this though. What can I try next?
You can try using --live-progress or --live_summary options when you start impala-shell to see if it works.
$ impala-shell -i <impalad-host:port> -d <database> --live_progress