[jira] [Updated] (HIVE-13248) Change date_add/date_sub/to_date functions to return Date type rather than String

["Shannon Ladymon (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Shannon Ladymon updated HIVE-13248:
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> Change date_add/date_sub/to_date functions to return Date type rather than String
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>                 Key: HIVE-13248
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13248
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: UDF
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0, 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Jason Dere
>            Assignee: Jason Dere
>             Fix For: 2.1.0
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>         Attachments: HIVE-13248.1.patch, HIVE-13248.2.patch, HIVE-13248.3.patch, HIVE-13248.4.patch
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> Some of the original "date" related functions return string values rather than Date values, because they were created before the Date type existed in Hive. We can try to change these to return Date in the 2.x line.
> Date values should be implicitly convertible to String.



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