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From: Abhishek Girish <abhishek.girish@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:25:06 -0800
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Subject: Re: Support for Text Datatype
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Then there is a high chance I might have used it with Postgres instead.
Like you said, the documentation needs to be updated. But I shall wait for
your confirmation. Thanks!

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Aman Sinha <asinha@maprtech.com> wrote:

> Text type fails validation in Calcite/Optiq so I don't think it was ever
> supported.  There's a good chance the documentation needs to be
> updated..but let me confirm that by tomorrow.
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Abhishek Girish <agirish@mapr.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The documentation (
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DRILL/Data+Types) lists Text
> > as
> > a supported data type in Drill and I vaguely remember using the same
> > sometime before in my CTAS scripts.
> >
> > As of now, my queries with an explicit cast to Text fails complaining
> > "*Unknown
> > datatype name 'TEXT' "*
> >
> > Can someone confirm if Text is indeed a supported data type and the
> current
> > behavior is a bug? Or if it unsupported and the documentation needs to be
> > corrected. I'll file a JIRA accordingly.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Abhishek
> >
>

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