Convenience UDFs for binary data type
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Key: HIVE-2482
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2482
Project: Hive
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 0.9.0
Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan
HIVE-2380 introduced binary data type in Hive. It will be good to have
following udfs to make it more useful:
* UDF's to convert to/from hex string
* UDF's to convert to/from string using a specific encoding
* UDF's to convert to/from base64 string
* UDF's to convert to/from non-string types using a particular serde
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