[HIVE-1378] Return value for map, array, and struct needs to return a string

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: JDBC
• Assignee: Steven K. Wong
• Reporter: Jerome Boulon
• Created: 01/Jun/10 19:56
• Updated: 16/Dec/11 23:59
• Resolved: 27/Sep/10 19:17

Description

In order to be able to select/display any data from JDBC Hive driver, return value for map, array, and struct needs to return a string

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HIVE-1859 Hive's tinyint datatype is not supported by the Hive JDBC driver
• is duplicated by: HIVE-1606 For a null value in a string column, JDBC driver returns the string "NULL"
• is duplicated by: HIVE-1860 Hive's smallint datatype is not supported by the Hive JDBC driver
• is duplicated by: HIVE-1861 Hive's float datatype is not supported by the Hive JDBC driver
• is duplicated by: HIVE-1863 Boolean columns in Hive tables containing NULL are treated as FALSE by the Hive JDBC driver.
• relates to: HIVE-1126 Missing some Jdbc functionality like getTables getColumns and HiveResultSet.get* methods based on column name.