Yes. Even a normal (non-generic) UDF might work if all columns can be
converted to the same type. UDF can accept variable-length of
arguments of the same type.

it will be a great addition to let UDF/UDAF handle * (as well as `regex`).
The change is all compile-time, and is relatively simple.

Zheng

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You could write a generic UDF since they accept arbitrary signature,
> but you would have to pass each column specifically (no * support)
>



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Yours,
Zheng
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