Technically very do-able timestamps and other decimal types have been added
over the years. It actually turns out to be a fair amount of work mostly
due to the proliferations of serde that need to be able to read/write that
type
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Juan Delard de Rigoulières <
Hi,
We'd like to extend Hive to support a new primitive type. For simplicity
sake, think of UUID. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Universally_unique_identifier)
UUIDs are string with a particular/simple structure - known regex
matchable. (
