It looks like this issue can be resolved and the patch committed. Would someone with commit access be kind enough to resolve the issue and commit it?
It might also be helpful if we could define a new component “Storage - Avro” in Jira for future issues. Thanks! > On Jul 5, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Bhallamudi Venkata Siva Kamesh (JIRA) > <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > Bhallamudi Venkata Siva Kamesh created DRILL-3458: > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Summary: Avro file format's support for map and nullable union > data types. > Key: DRILL-3458 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3458 > Project: Apache Drill > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Storage - Other > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Bhallamudi Venkata Siva Kamesh > Assignee: Jacques Nadeau > > > Avro file format as of now does not support union and map datatypes. > For union datatypes, like > [Pig|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PIG/AvroStorage] and > [Hive|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AvroSerDe], I think, > we can support nullable union like ["null", "some-type"]. > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.3.4#6332)