Jason Dere created HIVE-5204:
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             Summary: Change type compatibility methods to use 
PrimitiveCategory rather than TypeInfo
                 Key: HIVE-5204
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5204
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Jason Dere
            Assignee: Jason Dere


The type compatibility methods in the FunctionRegistry (getCommonClass, 
implicitConvertable) compare TypeInfo objects directly when its doing its type 
compatibility logic. This won't work as well with qualified types (varchar, 
char, decimal), because we will need different TypeInfo objects to represent 
varchar(5) and varchar(10), and the equality comparisons won't work anymore. We 
can change this logic to look at the PrimitiveCategory for the TypeInfo instead.

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