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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-4844:
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Re: type name vs additional columns
By instinct I think latter suggests a cleaner approach while the former seems a
little "hacky" as we put semantics in the type name, similar to putting a
person's name and age in the same column. Having said that, I'm open to that
approach. I just wasn't clear about all the benefits of it besides trying to
save a schema upgrade.
> 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, HIVE-4844.2.patch,
> HIVE-4844.3.patch, screenshot.png
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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.
> NO PRECOMMIT TESTS
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