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Carter Shanklin commented on HIVE-10924: ---------------------------------------- [~Absolutesantaja] that's a good call out, can you file a new sub-task for tracking purposes? The good news, possibly, is that Hive already does support insert column lists for the ordinary insert statement. As I understand it the MERGE statement is just re-written into other statements so this may not be difficult to achieve. > add support for MERGE statement > ------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-10924 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10924 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Query Planning, Query Processor, Transactions > Affects Versions: 1.2.0 > Reporter: Eugene Koifman > Assignee: Eugene Koifman > > add support for > MERGE INTO tbl USING src ON … WHEN MATCHED THEN ... WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN ... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)