[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-14251) Union All of different types resolves to incorrect data

["Mohit Sabharwal (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mohit Sabharwal commented on HIVE-14251:
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LGTM, +1

Should this behavior change be documented in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Union ?  

> Union All of different types resolves to incorrect data
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-14251
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14251
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Query Planning
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Aihua Xu
>            Assignee: Aihua Xu
>         Attachments: HIVE-14251.1.patch, HIVE-14251.2.patch, HIVE-14251.3.patch, HIVE-14251.4.patch
>
>
> create table src(c1 date, c2 int, c3 double);
> insert into src values ('2016-01-01',5,1.25);
> select * from 
> (select c1 from src union all
> select c2 from src union all
> select c3 from src) t;
> It will return NULL for the c1 values. Seems the common data type is resolved to the last c3 which is double.



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