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

2012-08-06 Thread Stephen Scaffid
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

Re: Custom SerDe and getting column comments

2012-07-27 Thread Stephen Scaffid
script's output. Perhaps I shall look more closely at that code. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Stephen Scaffid sscaff...@tripadvisor.com wrote: I have a custom SerDe we are using and it works well. However, we have one issue with it - an application used to allow users to maintain table

Custom SerDe and getting column comments

2012-07-26 Thread Stephen Scaffid
I have a custom SerDe we are using and it works well. However, we have one issue with it - an application used to allow users to maintain table and column descriptions does not work with it. We store the descriptions as comments on the tables and columns, via a python script that simply