So, the patch doesn not seem to fix the problem we are having, but it
combined with the one I sent to the list seems to take care of it. I
will continue to study this issue and report back on any issues.
Thanks again!
On 08/06/2012 06:59 PM, Stephen Scaffid wrote:
Thanks! I'll see how 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...@tripadvisor.com>
wrote:
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 comments always get overwritten with the string "from
deserializer".
I've possibly found a way to work around this from within hive but I want to
get some insight from the hive-dev community to figure out whether or not this
is a patently bad idea and we are just setting ourselves up for pain later on.
I won't go into all the details but it seems to work in our (so far) limited
testing. However, we are using hive 0.7.1 and the patch I am sending is against
master/HEAD.
Please let me know if this is an acceptable approach to preserving column
comments with non-native SerDes or not!
