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Lefty Leverenz reassigned HIVE-3386:
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Assignee: Lefty Leverenz
> Document how to import NULL values into a table at LanguageManual+Types (\N
> with Lazy SerDe)
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> Key: HIVE-3386
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3386
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0
> Reporter: Jakub Holy
> Assignee: Lefty Leverenz
>
> The documentation at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Types should
> be enhanced as follows:
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> Handling of NULL values
> Missing values are represented by the special value NULL. To import data with
> NULL fields, check documentation of the SerDe used by the table. (The default
> Text Format uses LazySimpleSerDe which interprets the string \N as NULL when
> importing.)
> ---
> Reason:
> It's nearly impossible to find out how to make e.g. a string field to be NULL
> in hive without lot of googling. This is an important thing and should be
> documented properly at a clearly visible place (the Data Types page seems to
> be the most logical place to me though LanguageManual+DML would certainly
> also be a good place).
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