, so as people can get
>> >> it.
>> >>
>> >> I will vote for (2) considering it was returning `null` earlier as
>> >> well & the new behaviour came up recently, it would be a behaviour
>> >> change for folks migrating from earlier ver
ns of hive to 4.x & the
> >> new behaviour ain't that fancy either...
> >>
> >> -Ayush
> >>
> >> -- Forwarded message -
> >> From: Zoltán Rátkai
> >> Date: Wed, 18 Sept 2024 at 12:55
> >> Subject: Re: IMPOR
rating from earlier versions of hive to 4.x & the
> >> new behaviour ain't that fancy either...
> >>
> >> -Ayush
> >>
> >> -- Forwarded message -
> >> From: Zoltán Rátkai
> >> Date: Wed, 18 Sept 2024 at 1
turning `null` earlier as
>> well & the new behaviour came up recently, it would be a behaviour
>> change for folks migrating from earlier versions of hive to 4.x & the
>> new behaviour ain't that fancy either...
>>
>> -Ayush
>>
>> -----
up recently, it would be a behaviour
> change for folks migrating from earlier versions of hive to 4.x & the
> new behaviour ain't that fancy either...
>
> -Ayush
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Zoltán Rátkai
> Date: Wed, 18 Sept 2024 at 12:55
&
Hi Ayush,
thanks for your thoughts!
My answers:
- On the official Hive page about types this is not documented at all:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82706456#LanguageManualTypes-date
"Dates: DATE values describe a particular year/month/day, in the form
*-
++ Adding the dev mailing list, as this might be relevant to them as well.
I have a few additional questions:
* Has this behavior been present since the inception of Hive, or did
it start occurring more recently? If this has been the behavior for
over a decade, it might be best to leave it unchan
