In Hive 0.8 and later versions you have the ability to specify the SerDe on a per-partition basis, but that's as granular as it gets.
Thanks. Carl On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:53 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking more from a perspective of specifying a SerDe per column > name. > > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Mark Grover <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Swarnim, >> What's your use case? >> If you use multiple SerDe's, when you are writing to the table, how would >> you want Hive to decide which one to use? >> >> Mark >> >> Mark Grover, Business Intelligence Analyst >> OANDA Corporation >> >> www: oanda.com www: fxtrade.com >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "kulkarni swarnim" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:29:26 AM >> Subject: Multiple SerDe per table name >> >> Does hive currently support multiple SerDe s to be defined per table >> name? Looking through the code and documentation, it seems like it doesn't >> as only one could be specified through the ROW FORMAT SERDE but just wanted >> to be sure. >> >> >> -- >> Swarnim >> > > > > -- > Swarnim >
