A few questions:
1) What operators do you envision UUID supporting? Are there UDFs specific to
it? Are there constraints on assuring its uniqueness?
2) A more general form of question 1, what about UUID is different from a
string or decimal(20, 0) (either of which should be able to store a UU
Technically very do-able timestamps and other decimal types have been added
over the years. It actually turns out to be a fair amount of work mostly
due to the proliferations of serde that need to be able to read/write that
type
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Juan Delard de Rigoulières <
j...@da
Hi,
We'd like to extend Hive to support a new primitive type. For simplicity
sake, think of UUID. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Universally_unique_identifier)
UUIDs are string with a particular/simple structure - known regex
matchable. (
/^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[1-5][0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3
