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Jason Dere updated HIVE-6421:
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
Status: Resolved (was: Patch Available)
Committed to trunk. Thanks for review Ashutosh
> abs() should preserve precision/scale of decimal input
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>
> Key: HIVE-6421
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6421
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: UDF
> Reporter: Jason Dere
> Assignee: Jason Dere
> Fix For: 0.15.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-6421.1.txt, HIVE-6421.2.patch, HIVE-6421.3.patch
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> {noformat}
> hive> describe dec1;
> OK
> c1 decimal(10,2) None
> hive> explain select c1, abs(c1) from dec1;
> ...
> Select Operator
> expressions: c1 (type: decimal(10,2)), abs(c1) (type:
> decimal(38,18))
> {noformat}
> Given that abs() is a GenericUDF it should be possible for the return type
> precision/scale to match the input precision/scale.
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