[jira] Updated: (HIVE-656) Add a PMOD (POSITIVE_MOD) function

["Zheng Shao (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Zheng Shao updated HIVE-656:
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    Summary: Add a PMOD (POSITIVE_MOD) function  (was: Add a POSITIVE_MOD function)

> Add a PMOD (POSITIVE_MOD) function
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-656
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-656
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>            Assignee: Scott Chen
>         Attachments: hive-656-2009-07-27-1.patch, hive-656-2009-07-27.patch
>
>
> There are a lot of cases people want to get a positive modulo result.
> For example, people want to bucket the data into 10 buckets. They use the hash code in Hive (based on Java) which can return a negative number. Then they need this POSITIVE_MOD(a, b) to return the results.
> Otherwise they can still do it but it will be very verbose:
> {code}
> ((hash(xxx) % 10) + 10) % 10
> {code}

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