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Vikram Ahuja commented on HIVE-29184:
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This patch causes compilation issue with thrift profile. I have raised a Jira
to track that: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-29222
and raised a fix as well for the same. PR for fix:
[https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/6096]
cc [~dkuzmenko] , [~ayushtkn] , [~zabetak]
> Basic Variant type support in Hive
> ----------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-29184
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-29184
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Denys Kuzmenko
> Assignee: Denys Kuzmenko
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 4.2.0
>
>
> Introduces the Variant data structure to represent semi-structured data and a
> new SQL type variant, with initial Hive support for reading and writing
> Variant data in Iceberg tables.
> {code:java}
> class Variant {
> private final byte[] value;
> private final byte[] metadata;
> }
> {code}
> Hive Deserializer converts Iceberg Variants into Hive Variants during access.
> Ref Spark code:
> https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/c0acf45023f1d565a211db15c9c32d2a04067432/common/variant/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/types/variant
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