InConsistency between Infomation Document and Actual Behavior for Built In Aggregate Functions(UDAF) Return Type. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2271 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2271 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Documentation, Query Processor Affects Versions: 0.7.1, 0.7.0, 0.6.0, 0.5.0 Environment: SuSE-Linux-11 Reporter: rohithsharma I followed the Information Document for executing UDAF like MIN(),MAX(),SUM(),AVG() and COUNT() below link. [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+UDF#LanguageManualUDF-BuiltinAggregateFunctions%28UDAF%29] Observed mismatch for RETURN TYPE mentioned in Information Document and Actual Behavior. 1.) Return Type for min(colName),max(colName) is mentioned as DOUBLE,but while retrieving it is returning colName DataType passed to Min()/Max(). Ex: 1).create table test(a int,b smallint,c string); 2).select min(a) from test; 3).ResultSet.getMetaData ().getColumnTypeName ( 1 ) Output : int Expected : double(According to InformationDoc) 2.) Return Type for sum(colName) is mentioned as DOUBLE,but while retrieving it is always returning as BIGINT Ex: 1).create table test(a int,b smallint,c string); 2).select sum(a) from test; 3).ResultSet.getMetaData ().getColumnTypeName ( 1 ) Output : BIGINT Expected : double(According to InformationDoc) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira