Xuefu Zhang created HIVE-6039: --------------------------------- Summary: Round, AVG and SUM functions reject char/varch input while accepting string input Key: HIVE-6039 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6039 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: UDF Reporter: Xuefu Zhang Assignee: Xuefu Zhang Fix For: 0.13.0
An error similar to the following will occur: {code} hive> create table tabs (c char(8), vc varchar(10)) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t'; hive> select sum(c), avg(c), sum(vc), avg(vc) from tabs; FAILED: UDFArgumentTypeException Only numeric or string type arguments are accepted but char(8) is passed. {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159)