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TJ Banghart commented on CALCITE-5346:
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[~libenchao] pointed out in the mailing list taht Flink does something similar
for {{{}STRING{}}}, {{{}BYTES{}}}, and {{TIMESTAMP_LTZ :
[https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/1c0534481c705c29b0e8eed3bdb421c188618b7a/flink-table/flink-sql-parser/src/main/codegen/includes/parserImpls.ftl#L1455]
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> Support for type aliases
> ------------------------
>
> Key: CALCITE-5346
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5346
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Will Noble
> Assignee: Will Noble
> Priority: Major
>
> We would like to support some sort of type alias functionality in order to
> map certain [BigQuery
> types|https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/data-types]
> to ISO types, e.g. {{STRING}} -> {{VARCHAR}}.
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