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Hive QA commented on HIVE-4485: ------------------------------- {color:green}Overall{color}: +1 all checks pass Here are the results of testing the latest attachment: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12615928/HIVE-4485.4.patch {color:green}SUCCESS:{color} +1 4740 tests passed Test results: http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/job/PreCommit-HIVE-Build/463/testReport Console output: http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/job/PreCommit-HIVE-Build/463/console Messages: {noformat} Executing org.apache.hive.ptest.execution.PrepPhase Executing org.apache.hive.ptest.execution.ExecutionPhase Executing org.apache.hive.ptest.execution.ReportingPhase {noformat} This message is automatically generated. ATTACHMENT ID: 12615928 > 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, HIVE-4485.3.patch, > HIVE-4485.4.patch > > > beeline is printing nulls as emtpy strings. There was no way to distinguish > between an empty string an a null value. > 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)