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Eli Reisman commented on HIVE-3264:
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The patch isn't stale yet (whew!), I'm working on a test...
> Add support for binary dataype to AvroSerde
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> Key: HIVE-3264
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3264
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Serializers/Deserializers
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0
> Reporter: Jakob Homan
> Labels: patch
> Attachments: HIVE-3264-1.patch, HIVE-3264-2.patch, HIVE-3264-3.patch,
> HIVE-3264-4.patch, HIVE-3264-5.patch
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> When the AvroSerde was written, Hive didn't have a binary type, so Avro's
> byte array type is converted an array of small ints. Now that HIVE-2380 is
> in, this step isn't necessary and we can convert both Avro's bytes type and
> probably fixed type to Hive's binary type.
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