[HIVE-15003] Update 'ALTER TABLE...UPDATE STATISTICS FOR COLUMN..' statement to support more data types

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: Statistics
• Assignee: Vineet Garg
• Reporter: Vineet Garg
• Created: 18/Oct/16 18:06
• Updated: 21/Jul/17 18:26
• Resolved: 03/Nov/16 22:18

Description

Currently ALTER TABLE...UDPATE STATISTICS FOR COLUMN... only support updating statistics for following data types:

• STRING
• DOUBLE
• BOOLEAN
• BINARY
• DECIMAL
• DATE

We are missing the following data types

• TINYINT
• SMALLINT
• INT
• BIGINT
• FLOAT
• VARCHAR
• CHAR
• TIMESTAMP