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Rajesh Balamohan commented on HIVE-15511:
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Config option would not be needed. Patch does not change current behavior. For
queries like "CAST(MONTHS_BETWEEN(l_shipdate, l_commitdate) / 12 AS INT)", user
can add {{false}} as third argument to improve the response time.
> Provide an option in months_between UDF to disable rounding-off
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> Key: HIVE-15511
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15511
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Rajesh Balamohan
> Assignee: Rajesh Balamohan
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HIVE-15511.1.patch, HIVE-15511.2.patch
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> Rounding off was added in {{GenericUDFMonthsBetween}} so that it can be
> compatible with systems like oracle. However, there are places where rounding
> off is not needed.
> E.g "CAST(MONTHS_BETWEEN(l_shipdate, l_commitdate) / 12 AS INT)" may not need
> rounding off via BigDecimal which is compute intensive.
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