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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-4844:
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[~jdere]:
1. I'm not sure which way is the better, but I feel that adding additional
columns seems cleaner in my opinion.
2. I could be off the topic on inheritance. I guess what I tried to say was
some types, for instance, string, CHAR, and VARCHAR are very similar and may
share a lot of implementations. This would also apply to DECIMAL and
DECIMAL(p,s) also. However, I haven't figured out the implications yet. Please
share your insights.
> Add char/varchar data types
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> Key: HIVE-4844
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4844
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Types
> Reporter: Jason Dere
> Assignee: Jason Dere
> Attachments: HIVE-4844.1.patch.hack
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> Add new char/varchar data types which have support for more SQL-compliant
> behavior, such as SQL string comparison semantics, max length, etc.
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