[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-6590) Hive does not work properly with boolean partition columns (wrong results and inserts to incorrect HDFS path)

["Zoltan Haindrich (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Zoltan Haindrich commented on HIVE-6590:
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I've tried to fix this with minimal changes for branch-2...by introducing lesser changes - but even thru I was able to fix insert and such...{{alter table drop partition}} still retained the problem - and because its using hive internal function to do the check that would look awkward...so I think it will be safer to go forward...

> Hive does not work properly with boolean partition columns (wrong results and inserts to incorrect HDFS path)
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>                 Key: HIVE-6590
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6590
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Database/Schema, Metastore
>    Affects Versions: 0.10.0
>            Reporter: Lenni Kuff
>            Assignee: Zoltan Haindrich
>         Attachments: HIVE-6590.1.patch, HIVE-6590.2.patch, HIVE-6590.3.patch, HIVE-6590.4.patch
>
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> Hive does not work properly with boolean partition columns. Queries return wrong results and also insert to incorrect HDFS paths.
> {code}
> create table bool_part(int_col int) partitioned by(bool_col boolean);
> # This works, creating 3 unique partitions!
> ALTER TABLE bool_table ADD PARTITION (bool_col=FALSE);
> ALTER TABLE bool_table ADD PARTITION (bool_col=false);
> ALTER TABLE bool_table ADD PARTITION (bool_col=False);
> {code}
> The first problem is that Hive cannot filter on a bool partition key column. "select * from bool_part" returns the correct results, but if you apply a filter on the bool partition key column hive won't return any results.
> The second problem is that Hive seems to just call "toString()" on the boolean literal value. This means you can end up with multiple partitions (FALSE, false, FaLSE, etc) mapping to the literal value 'FALSE'. For example, if you can add three partition in have for the same logic value "false" doing:
> ALTER TABLE bool_table ADD PARTITION (bool_col=FALSE) -> /test-warehouse/bool_table/bool_col=FALSE/
> ALTER TABLE bool_table ADD PARTITION (bool_col=false) -> /test-warehouse/bool_table/bool_col=false/
> ALTER TABLE bool_table ADD PARTITION (bool_col=False) -> /test-warehouse/bool_table/bool_col=False/



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