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Sergio Peña commented on HIVE-12721: ------------------------------------ Test failures are not related. [~jbeard] Why is {{public Text evaluate}} used instead of {{public String evaluate}} if at the end we convert to String? The patch looks very simple. I just want to know if Text is needed in the class. > Add UUID built in function > -------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-12721 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12721 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: UDF > Reporter: Jeremy Beard > Assignee: Jeremy Beard > Attachments: HIVE-12721.1.patch, HIVE-12721.2.patch, HIVE-12721.patch > > > A UUID function would be very useful for ETL jobs that need to generate > surrogate keys. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)