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Eric Hanson commented on HIVE-4525: ----------------------------------- Yes, so you'd have to support both at least for an extended period of time. It would be a performance enhancement and you'd need to maintain backward compatibility for older data. > Support timestamps earlier than 1970 and later than 2038 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-4525 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4525 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Mikhail Bautin > Assignee: Mikhail Bautin > Attachments: D10755.1.patch > > > TimestampWritable currently serializes timestamps using the lower 31 bits of > an int. This does not allow to store timestamps earlier than 1970 or later > than a certain point in 2038. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira