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TJ Banghart commented on CALCITE-5346: -------------------------------------- I opened CALCITE-5621 for root schema UDT declarations. It appears that {{root}} might be this global value - or at least acts like it when type lookups are performed for DDL and CAST statements. > 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}}, {{BYTES}} → > {{VARBINARY}}. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)