Transform scripts only output text, so Hive has to convert from string to
the column's data type (boolean in this case). So if you send an empty
string "", that will be converted to boolean FALSE.
FYI, on the way in to a transform script, booleans come through as strings
"true" and "false".
On T
I'm trying to pass a FALSE value thru a custom transform script to another
table, like so:
FROM (
FROM downloads
SELECT project, file, os, FALSE as folder, country, dt
WHERE dt='2010-05-14'
DISTRIBUTE BY project
SORT BY project as