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Gopal V commented on HIVE-16050: -------------------------------- Yup, right at the top of the function. {code} if (a.equals(b)) { return a; } {code} Without that equals at the top, the code will convert a union of 2 Dates into a timestamp column. Beyond that case, I'm extremely suspicious of all the .q changes in HIVE-14251, if they all represent a query which worked in 2.1.x and won't in 2.2.x branch. > Regression: Union of null with non-null > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-16050 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16050 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Query Planning > Affects Versions: 2.2.0 > Reporter: Gopal V > Assignee: Gopal V > Fix For: 2.2.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-16050.1.patch > > > {code} > hive> select null as c1 union select 1 as c2; > FAILED: SemanticException Schema of both sides of union should match: > Column c1 is of type void on first table and type int on second table. Cannot > tell the position of null AST. > {code} > This looks related to HIVE-14251 which removed certain cases from the UNION > type coercion operations. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)