Re: Possible patch to fix column comments with non-native SerDe

2012-08-06 Thread Stephen Scaffid
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 2:1

Re: Custom SerDe and getting column comments

2012-07-27 Thread Stephen Scaffid
e metastore? Indeed, the comments show up there, but not in the python script's output. Perhaps I shall look more closely at that code. > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Stephen Scaffid > wrote: >> I have a custom SerDe we are using and it works well. However, we h

Custom SerDe and getting column comments

2012-07-26 Thread Stephen Scaffid
I have a custom SerDe we are using and it works well. However, we have one issue with it - an application used to allow users to maintain table and column descriptions does not work with it. We store the descriptions as "comments" on the tables and columns, via a python script that simply execu