Hi Udit, That JIRA is five years old and applies to hive 0.5. Newer releases are far larger...
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Types Thanks, Steve Sent from my iPad > On May 28, 2015, at 9:08 PM, Udit Mehta <ume...@groupon.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Per this ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1364 , the max > column size in hive is limited to 4000 chars. But i do read that there is a > way to increase it via mysql which is our database for the metastore. Can > anyone point me as to how I can do this? > > Our columns have deeply nested structs and easily cross the 4000 chars limit. > > Thanks, > Udit