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Mass Dosage commented on HIVE-15249:
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[~ngangam] - agreed on the approach of removing the check if possible, good
luck in digging into the history to find why this was added, we're very curious
too!
> HIve 2.1.0 is throwing InvalidObjectException(message:Invalid column type
> name is too long
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>
> Key: HIVE-15249
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15249
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Hive
> Reporter: vishal.rajan
>
> HIve 2.1.0 is throwing InvalidObjectException(message:Invalid column type
> name is too long
> If you go through MetaStoreUtils.java you can see MAX_MS_TYPENAME_LENGTH is
> hard coded to 2000, but this can be set to higher value in mysql.Table create
> doesn't happen , for tables with higher type length. Different users can
> change this variable based on different use cases/metastore if this can be a
> config variable.
> public static final int MAX_MS_TYPENAME_LENGTH = 2000;
> public static final String TYPE_FROM_DESERIALIZER = "<derived from
> deserializer>";
> /**
> * validate column type
> *
> * if it is predefined, yes. otherwise no
> * @param name
> * @return
> */
> static public String validateColumnType(String type) {
> if (type.equals(TYPE_FROM_DESERIALIZER)) return null;
> if (type.length() > MAX_MS_TYPENAME_LENGTH) {
> return "type name is too long: " + type;
> }
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