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Michael Armbrust commented on SPARK-6146:
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Now that we have our own DDL parser that doesn't live in hive, we should use
one code path for this.
> Support more datatype in SqlParser
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>
> Key: SPARK-6146
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6146
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Reporter: Yin Huai
> Priority: Critical
>
> Right now, I cannot do
> {code}
> df.selectExpr("cast(a as bigint)")
> {code}
> because only the following data types are supported in SqlParser
> {code}
> protected lazy val dataType: Parser[DataType] =
> ( STRING ^^^ StringType
> | TIMESTAMP ^^^ TimestampType
> | DOUBLE ^^^ DoubleType
> | fixedDecimalType
> | DECIMAL ^^^ DecimalType.Unlimited
> | DATE ^^^ DateType
> | INT ^^^ IntegerType
> )
> {code}
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