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TJ Banghart commented on CALCITE-5346: -------------------------------------- [~libenchao] pointed out in the mailing list taht Flink does something similar for {{{}STRING{}}}, {{{}BYTES{}}}, and {{TIMESTAMP_LTZ : [https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/1c0534481c705c29b0e8eed3bdb421c188618b7a/flink-table/flink-sql-parser/src/main/codegen/includes/parserImpls.ftl#L1455] }} > Support for type aliases > ------------------------ > > Key: CALCITE-5346 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5346 > Project: Calcite > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Will Noble > Assignee: Will Noble > Priority: Major > > We would like to support some sort of type alias functionality in order to > map certain [BigQuery > types|https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/data-types] > to ISO types, e.g. {{STRING}} -> {{VARCHAR}}. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)