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Flink Jira Bot updated FLINK-8129:
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> Add a union type
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> Key: FLINK-8129
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8129
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Table SQL / API
> Reporter: Timo Walther
> Priority: Major
> Labels: stale-major
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> Many input formats like Avro or ORC support union types to work with
> different types in one field. It might make sense to support those use cases
> in the Table & SQL API as well. A union type is similar to an {{Either}} type
> but takes an arbitrary number of possible types. It might considers {{null}}
> as a type. It is up for discussion if we want to add this type to
> {{flink-core}}.
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