[HIVE-17924] Restore SerDe by reverting HIVE-15167 to unbreak API compatibility

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2
• Target Version/s: 2.4.0
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 27/Oct/17 20:40
• Updated: 28/Mar/18 23:26

Description

HIVE-15167 broke compatibility badly for very little gain and caused a lot of pain for our users. We should revert it and restore the SerDe interface.