The setting is used to know whether the last column of the struct should take the rest of the row if there are extra fields.
Thanks Amareshwari On 2/17/11 12:58 AM, "Aurora Skarra-Gallagher" <aur...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: Hi, What does setting the "serialization.last.column.takes.rest" SERDEPROPERTIES do for the LazySimpleSerDe? http://hive.apache.org/docs/r0.6.0/api/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazySimpleSerDe.SerDeParameters.html#isLastColumnTakesRest() I came across that in considering a blob table (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-637). Thanks, Aurora
