Hi everyone, I'd like to start a vote on FLIP-604: Complete VARIANT Primitive Coverage with UUID and Timestamps [1]. It was discussed in [2].
The proposal completes the Parquet Variant primitive set in Flink. FLIP-521 [3] shipped VARIANT but only covered codes 0 through 16. FLIP-604 adds the rest: TIME, nanosecond timestamps, and UUID. To land UUID it also adds a native 16-byte UUID SQL type, with casts, ordering, a UUID literal, and the UUID_V4 and UUID_V7 generator functions. No Calcite upgrade is required. The vote will be open for at least 72 hours unless there is an objection or insufficient votes. Best, Ramin [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/FLINK/pages/446070993/FLIP-604+Complete+VARIANT+Primitive+Coverage+with+UUID+and+Timestamps [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/o9j5wt7cmsg4cwykmqtzx2t6f6ly14nb [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/FLINK/pages/349637099/FLIP-521+Integrating+Variant+Type+into+Flink+Enabling+Efficient+Semi-Structured+Data+Processing
