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Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-2269: --------------------------------------- I am not sure this is documented anywhere. As a hadoop historian, I am guessing ',' was chosen to avoid the separator/path separator differences on different OS's. I do not see a problem supporting columns other then how it might effect the dedicated cygwin/hive users. > Hive --auxpath option can't handle multiple colon separated values > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-2269 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2269 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: CLI > Affects Versions: 0.7.0, 0.7.1 > Reporter: Carl Steinbach > Assignee: Carl Steinbach > Attachments: HIVE-2269-auxpath.1.patch.txt > > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira