[DRILL-4209] Error in hive-to-drill-data-type-mapping documentation

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Kris Hahn
• Reporter: Devender Yadav
• Created: 17/Dec/15 06:45
• Updated: 18/Dec/15 01:20
• Resolved: 18/Dec/15 01:20

Description

Link: https://drill.apache.org/docs/hive-to-drill-data-type-mapping/

It says CHAR is supported and LIST, MAP, STRUCT, TIMESTAMP (Unix Epoch format), UNION are not supported.

While querying a table with char datatype field, Drill client says:

Unsupported Hive data type CHAR.
Following Hive data types are supported in Drill INFORMATION_SCHEMA:
BOOLEAN, BYTE, SHORT, INT, LONG, FLOAT, DOUBLE, DATE, TIMESTAMP,
BINARY, DECIMAL, STRING, VARCHAR, LIST, MAP, STRUCT and UNION

This is really confusing. Please look into this.