Re: Possible patch to fix column comments with non-native SerDe

2012-08-07 Thread Stephen R. Scaffidi
it goes! (better yet, this could be what it takes to convince the team to upgrade!) On Aug 6, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Jakob Homan wrote: This was fixed in Hive 8 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2171). Can you just apply that patch? On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Stephen R. Scaffidi sscaff

Possible patch to fix column comments with non-native SerDe

2012-08-06 Thread Stephen R. Scaffidi
My team and I have been trying, with limited success, to use the COMMENT feature of hive columns to maintain documentation for the tables and columns in our data-warehouse built on hive. However, we use a number of custom and non-native SerDes, and what happens to those tables is that the