[jira] [Commented] (DRILL-3328) Cannot cast hive binary to varchar

["Rahul Challapalli (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Rahul Challapalli commented on DRILL-3328:
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The worksround suggested by vicky works :
{code}
select cast(cast(col1 as ANY) as varchar(10)) from hive.temp_bin;
+---------+
| EXPR$0  |
+---------+
| abc     |
+---------+
{code}

> Cannot cast hive binary to varchar
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DRILL-3328
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3328
>             Project: Apache Drill
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Functions - Drill, Storage - Hive
>            Reporter: Rahul Challapalli
>            Assignee: Daniel Barclay (Drill)
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 1.1.0
>
>         Attachments: error.log
>
>
> git.commit.id.abbrev=710f829
> The below query fails with a fragment initialization error
> {code}
> select cast(col1 as varchar(10)) from hive.temp_bin;
> Error: PARSE ERROR: From line 1, column 8 to line 1, column 32: Cast function cannot convert value of type BINARY(1) to type VARCHAR(10)
> [Error Id: e7937c82-a249-4596-895f-eae2c54cfd45 on qa-node191.qa.lab:31010] (state=,code=0)
> {code}
> Data creation steps :
> {code}
> create table temp_bin (col1 BINARY) STORED AS TEXTFILE;
> insert overwrite table temp_bin select encode('abc', 'UTF-8') from temp limit 1;
> {code}
> I attached the error logs.



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