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Aihua Xu commented on HIVE-9537:
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Got your point.

1. From your last comment, I notice that it will return char(64) as the result 
for "concat(lower(cchar), upper(cchar)) ".  

2. And we should preserve the trailing space of the original string as I 
mentioned above.

[~jdere] Why we didn't return char(255) for such case? Do you agree (2) is an 
issue since regardless of the type you choose, we should get the value you 
stored, right?

> string expressions on a fixed length character do not preserve trailing spaces
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-9537
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9537
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: N Campbell
>            Assignee: Aihua Xu
>
> When a string expression such as upper or lower is applied to a fixed length 
> column the trailing spaces of the fixed length character are not preserved.
> {code:sql}
> CREATE TABLE  if not exists TCHAR ( 
> RNUM int, 
> CCHAR char(32)    
> )
> ROW FORMAT DELIMITED 
> FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' 
> LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' 
> STORED AS TEXTFILE;
> {code}
> {{cchar}} as a {{char(32)}}.
> {code:sql}
> select cchar, concat(cchar, cchar), concat(lower(cchar), cchar), 
> concat(upper(cchar), cchar) 
> from tchar;
> {code}
> 0|\N
> 1|
> 2| 
> 3|BB
> 4|EE
> 5|FF



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