Text type fails validation in Calcite/Optiq so I don't think it was ever supported. There's a good chance the documentation needs to be updated..but let me confirm that by tomorrow.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Abhishek Girish <agir...@mapr.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The documentation ( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DRILL/Data+Types) lists Text > as > a supported data type in Drill and I vaguely remember using the same > sometime before in my CTAS scripts. > > As of now, my queries with an explicit cast to Text fails complaining > "*Unknown > datatype name 'TEXT' "* > > Can someone confirm if Text is indeed a supported data type and the current > behavior is a bug? Or if it unsupported and the documentation needs to be > corrected. I'll file a JIRA accordingly. > > Regards, > Abhishek >
