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Carl Steinbach commented on HIVE-4485: -------------------------------------- [~thejas] I'm fine with changing the default behavior in the next release as long as we document the change in the release notes and provide a configuration option that allows users to revert back to the old behavior. > beeline prints null as empty strings > ------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-4485 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4485 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: HiveServer2 > Reporter: Thejas M Nair > Assignee: Thejas M Nair > Attachments: HIVE-4485.1.patch, HIVE-4485.2.patch > > > beeline is printing nulls as emtpy strings. > This is inconsistent with hive cli and other databases, they print null as > "NULL" string. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)