It is being supported since 1.7.0. Please check this link https://drill.apache.org/docs/apache-drill-1-7-0-release-notes/
On 04-Jul-2016 8:07 PM, "Santosh Kulkarni" <santoshskulkarn...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, While running another simple query for select count(*) from table_name, Drill gave an error for Unsupported Hive data type CHAR. The column is of CHAR(6) data type. Drill documentation shows CHAR as supported data type. This is on Drill version 1.6 Thanks, Santosh