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Michael Malak commented on HIVE-3528:
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As noted in the first comment from 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1287, casting to a STRUCT is not 
currently supported.

However, I did just now try casting individual fields of a STRUCT and that 
indeed does work.

I just now added details to the JIRA that I created last week.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4022

                
> Avro SerDe doesn't handle serializing Nullable types that require access to a 
> Schema
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-3528
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3528
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Serializers/Deserializers
>            Reporter: Sean Busbey
>            Assignee: Sean Busbey
>              Labels: avro
>             Fix For: 0.11.0
>
>         Attachments: HIVE-3528.1.patch.txt, HIVE-3528.2.patch.txt
>
>
> Deserialization properly handles hiding Nullable Avro types, including 
> complex types like record, map, array, etc. However, when Serialization 
> attempts to write out these types it erroneously makes use of the UNION 
> schema that contains NULL and the other type.
> This results in Schema mis-match errors for Record, Array, Enum, Fixed, and 
> Bytes.
> Here's a [review board of unit tests that express the 
> problem|https://reviews.apache.org/r/7431/], as well as one that supports the 
> case that it's only when the schema is needed.

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