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Ala Makota commented on HIVE-2482: ---------------------------------- MOO! > Convenience UDFs for binary data type > ------------------------------------- > > 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 > Assignee: 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 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira