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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-6637: -------------------------------------- This should be documented here, with a release note: * [LanguageManual -- Operators and UDFs -- String Functions | https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+UDF#LanguageManualUDF-StringFunctions] > UDF in_file() doesn't take CHAR or VARCHAR as input > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-6637 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6637 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Types, UDF > Affects Versions: 0.14.0 > Reporter: Xuefu Zhang > Assignee: Ashish Kumar Singh > Fix For: 0.14.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-6637.1.patch, HIVE-6637.2.patch, HIVE-6637.3.patch > > > {code} > hive> desc alter_varchar_1; > key string None > value varchar(3) None > key2 int None > value2 varchar(10) None > hive> select in_file(value, value2) from alter_varchar_1; > FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10016]: Line 1:15 Argument type mismatch > 'value': The 1st argument of function IN_FILE must be a string but > org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.WritableHiveVarcharObjectInspector@10f1f34a > was given. > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)