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Aaron Tokhy commented on HIVE-12502: ------------------------------------ Sure, will do. > to_date UDF cannot accept NULLs of VOID type > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-12502 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12502 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: UDF > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Aaron Tokhy > Assignee: Aaron Tokhy > Priority: Trivial > Attachments: HIVE-12502-branch-1.patch, HIVE-12502.1.patch, > HIVE-12502.patch > > > The to_date method behaves differently based off the 'data type' of null > passed in. > hive> select to_date(null); > FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10014]: Line 1:7 Wrong arguments 'TOK_NULL': > TO_DATE() only takes STRING/TIMESTAMP/DATEWRITABLE types, got VOID > hive> select to_date(cast(null as timestamp)); > OK > NULL > Time taken: 0.031 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s) > This appears to be a regression introduced in HIVE-5731. The previous > version of to_date would not check the type: > https://github.com/apache/hive/commit/09b6553214d6db5ec7049b88bbe8ff640a7fef72#diff-204f5588c0767cf372a5ca7e3fb964afL56 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)