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}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i ) We've looked into serde & udf but it doesn't seem elegant enough, so that it's possible to write DDLs like: *CREATE TABLE `awesome` {* * users STRING,* * id UUID* *};* We are looking to validation of values on ingestion (INSERT); so in the example, values for the second column will get validated as UUID records. Thanks in advance.
Juan
