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[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-6710) Support union types

Tupshin Harper created CASSANDRA-6710:
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             Summary: Support union types
                 Key: CASSANDRA-6710
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6710
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: API, Core
            Reporter: Tupshin Harper
            Priority: Minor


I sometimes find myself wanting to abuse Cassandra datatypes when I want to interleave two different types in the same column.

An example is in CASSANDRA-6167 where an approach is to tag what would normally be a numeric field with text indicating that it is special in some ways.

A more elegant approach would be to be able to explicitly define disjoint unions in the style of Haskell's and Scala's Either types.



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