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Hudson commented on HIVE-5352: ------------------------------ FAILURE: Integrated in Hive-trunk-h0.21 #2363 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Hive-trunk-h0.21/2363/]) HIVE-5352: cast(1.0 as int) returns null (Gunther Hagleitner via Thejas Nair) (thejas: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Apache-SVN&view=rev&rev=1526797) * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/udf/TestToInteger.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/cast_to_int.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientpositive/cast_to_int.q.out * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyInteger.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/LazyLong.java * /hive/trunk/serde/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/lazy/TestLazySimpleSerDe.java > cast('1.0' as int) returns null > ------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5352 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5352 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Gunther Hagleitner > Assignee: Gunther Hagleitner > Fix For: 0.12.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-5352.1.patch, HIVE-5352.2.patch, HIVE-5352.3.patch, > HIVE-5352.4.patch, HIVE-5352.5.patch > > > Casting strings to int/smallint/bigint/tinyint yields null if the string > isn't a 'pure' integer. '1.0', '2.4' all return null. I think for those cases > the cast should return the truncated int (i.e.: if c is string, cast(c as > int) should be the same as cast(cast(c as float) as int). > This is in line with the standard and is the same behavior as mysql and > oracle. (postgres and sql server throw error, see first answer here: > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/af3eff9c-737b-42fe-9016-05da9203a667/oracle-does-understand-cast10-as-int-why-sql-server-does-not) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira