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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-5191:
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Hi [~jdere], I have some comments on rb on your latest patch. After I played
with your patch, I felt that neither characterLength nor maxLength is
necessary. The reason for no need of maxLength is that you will always have
type info because the grammar prevents one from specifying a type of char w/o
maxLength. This is different from HiveDecimal, where UDF can specifies a return
type w/o precision/scale, for which some default values have to be assumed.
Please let me know what you think. Thanks.
> Add char data type
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> Key: HIVE-5191
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5191
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Types
> Reporter: Jason Dere
> Assignee: Jason Dere
> Attachments: HIVE-5191.1.patch, HIVE-5191.2.patch
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> Separate task for char type, since HIVE-4844 only adds varchar
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