Hi all, I wanted to see if there was any documentation or decent examples on how to add a new "custom" data type to Hive/Orc/etc.
I'm specifically looking to add in a more native Internet address (eg: Postgres's INET or CIDR) support into Hive. Currently we're storing any IP address/subnet information as a string, which is definitely less than ideal both in terms of storage size, as well as any sort of manipulations we need to do. I see that there is the `binary` type of data, and was thinking that's a fallback as well, but I'd also like to have the column's datatype clearly marked as the network type for my end-users. Thoughts? Thanks --Rick Weber
