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Hudson commented on HIVE-2378: ------------------------------ Integrated in Hive-trunk-h0.21 #925 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Hive-trunk-h0.21/925/]) HIVE-2378. Warn user that precision is lost when bigint is implicitly cast to double. (Kevin Wilfong via Siying Dong) sdong : http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Apache-SVN&view=rev&rev=1163455 Files : * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/ErrorMsg.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/plan/ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientnegative/compare_double_bigint.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientnegative/compare_string_bigint.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientnegative/compare_double_bigint.q.out * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientnegative/compare_string_bigint.q.out > Warn user that precision is lost when bigint is implicitly cast to double. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2378 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2378 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Kevin Wilfong > Assignee: Kevin Wilfong > Attachments: HIVE-2378.1.patch.txt, HIVE-2378.2.patch.txt, > HIVE-2378.3.patch.txt > > > When a bigint is implicitly cast to a double (when a bigint is involved in an > equality expression with a string or double) precision may be lost, resulting > in unexpected behavior. Until we fix the underlying issue we should throw an > error in strict mode, and a warning in nonstrict mode alerting the user about > this. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira