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Aihua Xu commented on HIVE-3454: -------------------------------- I agree that for non thread-safe statics, it will cause problems for multi-threading, while for constants or immutable objects, I guess you would share across threads rather than creating each copy for each thread. This is the case of a java primitive that we initialize once and use/read later by threads. Regarding UDF approach, I looked into that and it seems promising, while the current approach actually only evaluates the value when the type is timestamp. I guess it would be the same as UDF approach. > Problem with CAST(BIGINT as TIMESTAMP) > -------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3454 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3454 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Types, UDF > Affects Versions: 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.13.0, > 0.13.1 > Reporter: Ryan Harris > Assignee: Aihua Xu > Labels: newbie, newdev, patch > Attachments: HIVE-3454.1.patch.txt, HIVE-3454.2.patch, > HIVE-3454.3.patch, HIVE-3454.4.patch, HIVE-3454.patch > > > Ran into an issue while working with timestamp conversion. > CAST(unix_timestamp() as TIMESTAMP) should create a timestamp for the current > time from the BIGINT returned by unix_timestamp() > Instead, however, a 1970-01-16 timestamp is returned. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)