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Ashutosh Chauhan commented on HIVE-2380: ---------------------------------------- @John, For conversions, in this jira I am planning to provide functionality for to/from string using default JVM encoding, rest of these conversions I will take up in a follow-up jira. Motivation is to avoid having one giant patch and have multiple smaller patches. Sounds reasonable? > Add ByteArray Datatype > ---------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2380 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2380 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Serializers/Deserializers > Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan > Assignee: Ashutosh Chauhan > Attachments: hive-2380.patch > > > Add bytearray as a primitive data type. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira