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John Sichi commented on HIVE-2380:
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+1. Will commit when tests pass.
Ashutosh, could you please open and link these followups:
* UDF's to convert to/from hex string
* UDF's to convert to/from string using a specific encoding
* UDF's to convert to/from base64 string
* UDF's to convert to/from non-string types using a particular serde
* make LazyBinaryColumnarSerDe support 0-length binary strings, assigned to
Krishna Kumar (see HIVE-956) in case he wants to work on a way to remove the
limitation
> Add Binary Datatype in Hive
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> 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, hive-2380_1.patch, hive-2380_2.patch,
> hive-2380_3.patch
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> Add bytearray as a primitive data type.
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