Github user DaveBirdsall commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-trafodion/pull/552#discussion_r67899548
--- Diff: core/sql/common/NAType.cpp ---
@@ -670,6 +671,84 @@ short NAType::convertTypeToText(char * text, //
OUTPUT
displayCaseSpecific);
}
+short NAType::getMyTypeAsHiveText(NAString * outputStr) // output
+{
+ Lng32 fs_datatype = getFSDatatype();
+
+ switch (fs_datatype)
+ {
+ case REC_MIN_F_CHAR_H ... REC_MAX_F_CHAR_H:
+ *outputStr = "string";
+ break;
+
+ case REC_MIN_V_CHAR_H ... REC_MAX_V_CHAR_H:
+ {
+ SQLVarChar * ct = (SQLVarChar*)this;
+ if (ct->wasHiveString())
+ *outputStr = "string";
--- End diff --
Ah, now I see the point of the "wasHiveString" business. It's to recover
the original Hive data type on a describe.
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