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Ashutosh Chauhan commented on HIVE-2482:
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> 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
> Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan
> Assignee: Mark Wagner
> Fix For: 0.12.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-2482.1.patch, HIVE-2482.2.patch, HIVE-2482.3.patch
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> 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
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