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Jason Dere updated HIVE-13248:
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Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> Change date_add/date_sub/to_date functions to return Date type rather than
> String
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> Key: HIVE-13248
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13248
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: UDF
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0, 2.1.0
> Reporter: Jason Dere
> Assignee: Jason Dere
> Attachments: HIVE-13248.1.patch
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> Some of the original "date" related functions return string values rather
> than Date values, because they were created before the Date type existed in
> Hive. We can try to change these to return Date in the 2.x line.
> Date values should be implicitly convertible to String.
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