[HIVE-740] HiveMetaStore get_fields() method should use different logic for tables with native serdes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

HIVE-740. Fix HiveMetaStore get_fields. (Eric Hwang via zshao)

• Assignee: Eric Hwang
• Reporter: Eric Hwang
• Created: 08/Aug/09 01:19
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:07
• Resolved: 08/Aug/09 06:07

Description

The HiveMetaStore's get_fields() always gets the field schemas from the table's deserializer. However, we should extract the field schemas from the table's storage descriptor if the table is using a native serialization library. This will allow the field schema comments field to be preserved in the returned list of field schemas.