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Sergio Peña commented on HIVE-12721:
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Thanks. I was debugging Hive to know the difference on returning Text vs
String, but it's a little complicated.
Either way works.
+1
> Add UUID built in function
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> 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
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> A UUID function would be very useful for ETL jobs that need to generate
> surrogate keys.
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