[jira] Commented: (HIVE-285) UNION ALL does not allow different types in the same column

["Raghotham Murthy (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Raghotham Murthy commented on HIVE-285:
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type conversion in UNION will lead to confusing behavior. 

for a query like the following on two tables R(a int) and S(a string)

select a from R
union all
select a from S

What will the schema of the result of the join be? int or string?

> UNION ALL does not allow different types in the same column
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-285
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-285
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Query Processor
>    Affects Versions: 0.2.0, 0.3.0
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>            Assignee: Raghotham Murthy
>             Fix For: 0.3.0
>
>         Attachments: hive-285.1.patch
>
>
> {code}
> explain INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE t
>     SELECT s.r, s.c, sum(s.v) FROM
>     (
>       SELECT a.r AS r, a.c AS c, a.v AS v FROM t1 a
>       UNION ALL
>       SELECT b.r AS r, b.c AS c, 0 + b.v AS v FROM t2 b
>     ) s
>     GROUP BY s.r, s.c;
> {code}
> Both a and b have 3 string columns: r, c, and v.
> It compiled successfully but failed during runtime.
> "Explain" shows that the plan for the 2 union-all operands have different output types that are converged to STRING, but there is no UDFToString inserted for "0 + b.v AS v" and as a result, SerDe was failing because it expects a String but is passed a Double.

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