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Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-268: -------------------------------------- Still not exactly what you want but with CTAS you can essentially get a folder in /user/hive/warehouse/<tableIWant> with the format you want. > "Insert Overwrite Directory" to accept configurable table row format > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-268 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-268 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Zheng Shao > Assignee: Paul Yang > > There is no way for the users to control the file format when they are > outputting the result into a directory. > We should allow: > {code} > INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY "/user/zshao/result" > ROW FORMAT DELIMITED > FIELDS TERMINATED BY '9' > SELECT tablea.* from tablea; > {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.