[jira] Updated: (HIVE-164) Support CASE and IF statement

["Zheng Shao (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-164?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Zheng Shao updated HIVE-164:
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    Attachment: HIVE-164.1.patch

This simple patch provides "IF".
The majority of the cases are that users just want a simple "IF". This patch provides this simple functionality.

For "CASE" with variable number of arguments, let's move the discussion to a new jira.




> Support CASE and IF statement
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-164
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-164
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>            Assignee: David Phillips
>         Attachments: HIVE-164.1.patch
>
>
> See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/control-flow-functions.html for details.
> Syntax:
> {code}
> CASE value WHEN [compare_value] THEN result [WHEN [compare_value] THEN result ...] [<ELSE result] END
> CASE WHEN [condition] THEN result [WHEN [condition] THEN result ...] [ELSE result] END 
> IF(expr1,expr2,expr3)
> {code}

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