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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-5819:
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Found the answer: Hive 0.7.0 introduced UNIONTYPE (HIVE-537) and improvements
are pending (HIVE-2390).
> Hive Language Manual missing VARCHAR in Create Table
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> Key: HIVE-5819
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5819
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Documentation
> Affects Versions: 0.13.0
> Reporter: Eugene Koifman
> Assignee: Lefty Leverenz
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> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-CreateTable
> has "primitive_type" section which is missing VARCHAR, but it's supported as
> shown in
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Types#LanguageManualTypes-Varchar
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