[HIVE-21952] Hive should allow to delete serde properties too, not just add them

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.5, 3.0.0, 4.0.0
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Miklos Gergely
• Reporter: Ruslan Dautkhanov
• Created: 03/Jul/19 19:50
• Updated: 01/Jul/21 10:39
• Resolved: 16/Jun/20 07:47

Description

Hive should allow to delete serde properties not just add/change them

We have a use case when a presence of certain serde properties 
causes issues and we want to delete just that one serde property. 

It's not currently possible.

Thanks.

 

Issue Links

• fixes: HIVE-12414 ALTER TABLE UNSET SERDEPROPERTIES does not work
• relates to: SPARK-28266 data duplication when `path` serde property is present
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1112