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Jason Dere commented on HIVE-3910: ---------------------------------- I've started taking a look at making these changes to Sun Rui's patch from HIVE-4055, will post a patch when I'm done. > Create a new DATE datatype > -------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3910 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3910 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Task > Reporter: Namit Jain > > It might be useful to have a DATE datatype along with timestamp. > This can only store the day (possibly number of days from 1970-01-01, > and would thus give space savings in binary format). -- 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