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Jason Dere commented on HIVE-5206:
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Correction - the justification is for decimal, char, varchar, so for a
combination of string/numeric types. The "right" way depends on whether the
type is a qualified type and requires parameters.
Not going to indulge the "what if" fantasies here, but would like to point out
that decimal/char/varchar are pretty fundamental SQL types which many Hive
users are interested in, and I hope this work helps to facilitate that effort.
If someone wants to take up the torch on unifying integral types as a part of
this work, that is great too if that is the right thing to do.
> Support parameterized primitive types
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> Key: HIVE-5206
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5206
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Types
> Reporter: Jason Dere
> Assignee: Jason Dere
> Attachments: HIVE-5206.1.patch, HIVE-5206.D12693.1.patch
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> Support for parameterized types is needed for char/varchar/decimal support.
> This adds a type parameters value to the
> PrimitiveTypeEntry/PrimitiveTypeInfo/PrimitiveObjectInspector objects.
> NO PRECOMMIT TESTS - dependent on HIVE-5203/HIVE-5204
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