[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-12274) Increase width of columns used for general configuration in the metastore.

["Carter Shanklin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Carter Shanklin commented on HIVE-12274:
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[~teabot] can you post a sample DDL? What serde are you using to read? Is it Hive-JSON-Serde?

> Increase width of columns used for general configuration in the metastore.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-12274
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12274
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Metastore
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Elliot West
>            Assignee: Sushanth Sowmyan
>              Labels: metastore
>
> This issue is very similar in principle to HIVE-1364. We are hitting a limit when processing JSON data that has a large nested schema. The struct definition is truncated when inserted into the metastore database column {{COLUMNS_V2.YPE_NAME}} as it is greater than 4000 characters in length.
> Given that the purpose of these columns is to hold very loosely defined configuration values it seems rather limiting to impose such a relatively low length bound. One can imagine that valid use cases will arise where reasonable parameter/property values exceed the current limit. Can these columns not use CLOB-like types as for example as used by {{TBLS.VIEW_EXPANDED_TEXT}}? It would seem that suitable type equivalents exist for all targeted database platforms:
> * MySQL: {{mediumtext}}
> * Postgres: {{text}}
> * Oracle: {{CLOB}}
> * Derby: {{LONG VARCHAR}}
> I'd suggest that the candidates for type change are:
> * {{COLUMNS_V2.TYPE_NAME}}
> * {{TABLE_PARAMS.PARAM_VALUE}}
> * {{SERDE_PARAMS.PARAM_VALUE}}
> * {{SD_PARAMS.PARAM_VALUE}}
> Finally, will this limitation persist in the work resulting from HIVE-9452?



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