Class naming isn't very consistent across much of Hive. I'd name it GenericUDFTimestampAnsi or something that captures the fact that it's a UDF and not a cast.
Alan. On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:23 PM Shawn Weeks <swe...@weeksconsulting.us> wrote: > Hi, I’m working on a proper ansi sql to_timestamp function for a project > and I’d like it to be done so that I can contribute it. I’m trying to > figure out what to call the class though. Normally I’d assume > GenericUDFTimestamp would make sense to match the existing to_date function > but currently the timestamp casting function is called that while all the > other casting functions are called GenericUDFToTypeName. Any ideas? > > Thanks > Shawn >