Eric Hanson created HIVE-4821: --------------------------------- Summary: Implement type casting for all types Key: HIVE-4821 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4821 Project: Hive Issue Type: Sub-task Affects Versions: vectorization-branch Reporter: Eric Hanson
Implement vectorized support for casting from any type to any type. cast(expr as <type>): Converts the results of the expression expr to <type> e.g. cast('1' as BIGINT) will convert the string '1' to it integral representation. A null is returned if the conversion does not succeed -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira