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Posted to user@hive.apache.org by Ayon Sinha <ay...@yahoo.com> on 2011/07/26 00:08:43 UTC

best choice for field delimiters for DB dumps on Hive

Hi,
As I understand, currently Hive does not honor escaping delimiter characters for input format. So is the best choice for delimiters when the fields can have freeform text?
Note that mysqldump only takes string as a specified delimiter.
 
-Ayon
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