[HIVE-3190] allow INTEGER as a type name in a column/cast expression (per ISO-SQL 2011)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Jason Dere
• Reporter: N Campbell
• Created: 24/Jun/12 15:25
• Updated: 01/Nov/13 10:12

Description

Just extend the parser to allow INTEGER instead of making folks use INT

select cast('10' as integer) from cert.tversion tversion

FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:20 cannot recognize input near 'integer' ')' 'from' in primitive type specification