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Vaibhav Gumashta commented on HIVE-14027: ----------------------------------------- Explain output: {code} hive> explain select a.n, a.t, isnull(b.n), isnull(b.t) from (select * from biq998_bigint where n = 1) a left outer join (select * from biq998_bigint where 1 = 2) b on a.n = b.n; OK STAGE DEPENDENCIES: Stage-4 is a root stage Stage-3 depends on stages: Stage-4 Stage-0 depends on stages: Stage-3 STAGE PLANS: Stage: Stage-4 Map Reduce Local Work Alias -> Map Local Tables: $hdt$_1:biq998_bigint Fetch Operator limit: -1 Alias -> Map Local Operator Tree: $hdt$_1:biq998_bigint TableScan alias: biq998_bigint Statistics: Num rows: 2 Data size: 10 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE Filter Operator predicate: false (type: boolean) Statistics: Num rows: 1 Data size: 5 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE Select Operator expressions: n (type: bigint), t (type: string) outputColumnNames: _col0, _col1 Statistics: Num rows: 1 Data size: 5 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE HashTable Sink Operator keys: 0 1 (type: bigint) 1 _col0 (type: bigint) Stage: Stage-3 Map Reduce Map Operator Tree: TableScan alias: biq998_bigint Statistics: Num rows: 2 Data size: 10 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE Filter Operator predicate: (n = 1) (type: boolean) Statistics: Num rows: 1 Data size: 5 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE Select Operator expressions: t (type: string) outputColumnNames: _col1 Statistics: Num rows: 1 Data size: 5 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE Map Join Operator condition map: Left Outer Join0 to 1 keys: 0 1 (type: bigint) 1 _col0 (type: bigint) outputColumnNames: _col1, _col2, _col3 Statistics: Num rows: 1 Data size: 5 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE Select Operator expressions: 1 (type: bigint), _col1 (type: string), _col2 is null (type: boolean), _col3 is null (type: boolean) outputColumnNames: _col0, _col1, _col2, _col3 Statistics: Num rows: 1 Data size: 5 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE File Output Operator compressed: false Statistics: Num rows: 1 Data size: 5 Basic stats: COMPLETE Column stats: NONE table: input format: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat output format: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveSequenceFileOutputFormat serde: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe Local Work: Map Reduce Local Work Stage: Stage-0 Fetch Operator limit: -1 Processor Tree: ListSink Time taken: 0.637 seconds, Fetched: 70 row(s) {code} Looks like stage-4 after the filter operator should output 0 rows; stats shown are different. > NULL values produced by left outer join do not behave as NULL > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-14027 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14027 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Query Processor > Affects Versions: 1.2.1, 2.0.1 > Reporter: Vaibhav Gumashta > Assignee: Vaibhav Gumashta > > Consider the following setup: > {code} > create table tbl (n bigint, t string); > insert into tbl values (1, 'one'); > insert into tbl values(2, 'two'); > select a.n, a.t, isnull(b.n), isnull(b.t) from (select * from tbl where n = > 1) a left outer join (select * from tbl where 1 = 2) b on a.n = b.n; > 1 one false true > {code} > The query should return true for isnull(b.n). > I've tested by inserting a row with null value for the bigint column into > tbl, and isnull returns true in that case. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)