The semantics of these will follow mysql. Currently I don't think they are supported in many places inside Hive. In our production environment, we are still using strings to represent date, and unixtime to represent datetime at this point.
Zheng On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:43 PM, David Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hive has three date/time types: date, datetime and timestamp. What is > their intended (future) purpose and current implementation status? > -- Yours, Zheng
