Can you point us to where you are looking? The documentation should only say that "CHAR" datatype in hive is supported from Drill 1.7 onward.
- Rahul On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Santosh Kulkarni < santoshskulkarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Shankar. I was looking in Drill documentation but did not realize to > check in 1.7 Release notes. > > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Shankar Mane <shankar.m...@games24x7.com> > wrote: > > > 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 > > >