public void setProperties(final Properties properties) {
    properties.remove(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMN_COMMENTS);
    if (properties instanceof CopyOnFirstWriteProperties) {
      this.properties = properties;
    } else {
      internProperties(properties);
      this.properties = new CopyOnFirstWriteProperties(properties);
    }
  }
Return a deserializer object corresponding to the partitionDesc.
ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/plan/PartitionDesc.java