Re: Custom SerDe and getting column comments

2012-07-27 Thread Stephen Scaffid
On Jul 26, 2012, at 9:05 PM, Travis Crawford wrote: > Currently you can't use comments with custom serde's. Look into > MetaStoreUtils.getFieldsFromDeserializer and you'll see "from > deserializer" is hard-coded as the comment. I found that. I also found in org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Ta

Re: Custom SerDe and getting column comments

2012-07-26 Thread Travis Crawford
Currently you can't use comments with custom serde's. Look into MetaStoreUtils.getFieldsFromDeserializer and you'll see "from deserializer" is hard-coded as the comment. This is definitely an area for improvement. Is your serde reporting columns, or do you have them stored in the metastore? If yo