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Warning
titleUNIONTYPE support is incomplete

The UNIONTYPE datatype was introduced in Hive 0.7.0 (HIVE-537), but full support for this type in Hive remains incomplete. Queries that reference UNIONTYPE fields in JOIN (HIVE-2508), WHERE, and GROUP BY clauses will fail, and Hive does not define syntax to extract the tag or value fields of a UNIONTYPE. This means that UNIONTYPEs are effectively lookpass-atthrough-only.

Union types can at any one point hold exactly one of their specified data types. You can create an instance of this type using the create_union UDF:

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