Github user hvanhovell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16804#discussion_r99627383
--- Diff:
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/types/package.scala ---
@@ -21,4 +21,10 @@ package org.apache.spark.sql
* Contains a type system for attributes produced by relations, including
complex types like
* structs, arrays and maps.
*/
-package object types
+package object types {
+ /**
+ * Metadata key used to store the Hive type name. This is relevant for
datatypes that do not
+ * have a direct Spark SQL counterpart, such as CHAR and VARCHAR.
+ */
+ val HIVE_TYPE_STRING = "HIVE_TYPE_STRING"
--- End diff --
Yeah we should.
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