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! > > >
