Issue HIVE-3682 add a new feature that user could define custom field separators and add serde / output formats support for writing out . But the usage has not been updated in the following wiki:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DML#LanguageManualDML-Writingdataintofilesystemfromqueries I‘m glad to do this work and could I get edit permissions? Thanks. -- Best wishs! Fangkun.Cao