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Igor Kabiljo commented on HIVE-2470:
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I think, if the UdfType(deterministic=true):
- returns constant OI, if all arguments are constant OI
- handles both compile-time constant OIs and run-time passing of constant OIs
it can all work, if EVAL is not marked as deterministic, and has its own
internal logic if it can return constant OI or not.
In any case, EVAL cannot be marked as deterministic and must have its own
internal logic, since EVAL('RAND') receives all constant OIs, and doesn't
return constant OI. On the other hand EVAL('ARRAY', 1, 2, 3) should return
constant OI.
Also, here 'deterministic' and without 'side-effects' is treated the same, but
we can have function returning constant OI in runtime, that has side-effects -
like JAVA_F.
> Improve support for Constant Object Inspectors
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> Key: HIVE-2470
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2470
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jonathan Chang
> Assignee: Jonathan Chang
> Attachments: HIVE-1360.part2.patch, HIVE-2470.patch
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> ConstantObjectInspectors are nice but they need to be more widely supported
> and used. In particular,
> * More functions need to be using them.
> * There need to be facilities for propagating constness.
> * Support for complex types must be added.
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