[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-5192) concat()/concat_ws() can use common implementation

["Jason Dere (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jason Dere commented on HIVE-5192:
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There's actually some differences in what arguments are allowed by the two functions, so merging concat() and concat_ws() would mean the following changes in behavior for each function:

concat() would allow lists of primitive types as arguments; each item of each list would be concatenated to the result string.
concat_ws() would allow non-string types as arguments, so concat_ws('|', 1, 2) would be valid.
                
> concat()/concat_ws() can use common implementation
> --------------------------------------------------
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>                 Key: HIVE-5192
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5192
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jason Dere
>
> One of the review comments from HIVE-4844 mentioned that concat/concat_ws can probably share a common implementation.

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