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Thejas M Nair commented on HIVE-15792: -------------------------------------- [~nandakumar131] can you also update the description (the extended part) of these functions (the @Description tag) to talk about the behavior on getting empty pad string ? > Hive should raise SemanticException when LPAD/RPAD pad character's length is 0 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-15792 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15792 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Zoltan Chovan > Assignee: Nandakumar > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HIVE-15792.000.patch > > > For example SELECT LPAD('A', 2, ''); will cause an infinite loop and the > running query will hang without any error. > It would be great if this could be prevented by checking the pad character's > length and if it's 0 then throw a SemanticException. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)