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Sushanth Sowmyan commented on HIVE-6766:
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Patch looks good to me. [~alangates], could we please have a precommit test
kicked off on this?
> HCatLoader always returns Char datatype with maxlength(255) when table
> format is ORC
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> Key: HIVE-6766
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6766
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HCatalog
> Affects Versions: 0.13.0
> Reporter: Eugene Koifman
> Assignee: Eugene Koifman
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: HIVE-6766.patch
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> attached patch contains
> org.apache.hive.hcatalog.pig.TestOrcHCatPigStorer#testWriteChar()
> which shows that char(5) value written to Hive (ORC) table using HCatStorer
> will come back as char(255) when read with HCatLoader.
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