Yes. Specifically the avro ser-de like avro support "evolving schema".
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Dominik Choma <dominik.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have external hcat structures over lzo-compressed datafiles , data is > partitioned by date string > Is it possible to handle schema changes by setting diffrent schema(column > names & datatypes) per-partition? > > Thanks, > Dominik. > >