[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-2165) variable to be assigned with an atomic value from a query

["Edward Capriolo (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-2165:
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I was thinking about this. Getting 1 row result is simple enough. We can tap the the result set as it streamed back to it and store it and provide access with something like: ${LASTROW}[0]. The question is how many of these type of features do we need before should tackle a stored procedure like language.

> variable to be assigned with an atomic value from a query
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-2165
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2165
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Ning Zhang
>
> Currently variable can only be assigned by a constant. There are cases where a query generate a single value that should be used by the second query. It would be nice to assign this value to a variable and pass it to the second query. For exmaple:
> {code}
> hive> set x_avg = `select avg(x) from T`;
> hive> select my_udf(${hiveconf:x_avg}, y) from T2;
> {code}

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