Hi all, I assumed that it should be compatible to convert column type varchar to string, however, after running ALTER TABLE table CHANGE col col STRING, I encounter the following error when querying the column from hive:
Failed with exception java.io.IOException:org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.io.HiveVarcharWritable cannot be cast to org.apache.hadoop.io.Text Anyone encountered this before, or know how to work around this? Thank you! - Will
