I don't think there is any issue keeping it away. The only issue is resource. We welcome effort from the community to move it forward. I'm willing to coach/review it.
--Xuefu On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:18 AM, John Omernik <j...@omernik.com> wrote: > Greetings all - > > We really want to look into the Parquet file format more, however, without > supporting all the Hive Column types, we are hesitant to dive in more. > > Currently, it looks like it's just the BINARY column type (which I use) > based on the JIRA below, there hasn't been any movement in on that in a few > months, I guess I am curious on the thoughts of the group on what issues is > keeping Parquet from supporting BINARY, and when sort of timeline we may > have for PARQUET to fully support all Hive column types. > > Thanks! > > John > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6384 >