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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-5802: ----------------------------------- This is fixed in HIVE-5706. Here is the new console output: {code} hive> explain select pow(dd, 2) from test limit 1; OK ABSTRACT SYNTAX TREE: (TOK_QUERY (TOK_FROM (TOK_TABREF (TOK_TABNAME test1))) (TOK_INSERT (TOK_DESTINATION (TOK_DIR TOK_TMP_FILE)) (TOK_SELECT (TOK_SELEXPR (TOK_FUNCTION pow (TOK_TABLE_OR_COL dd) 2))) (TOK_LIMIT 1))) STAGE DEPENDENCIES: Stage-1 is a root stage Stage-0 is a root stage STAGE PLANS: Stage: Stage-1 Map Reduce Alias -> Map Operator Tree: test1 TableScan alias: test1 Select Operator expressions: expr: power(dd, 2) type: double outputColumnNames: _col0 Limit File Output Operator compressed: false GlobalTableId: 0 table: input format: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat output format: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat serde: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe Stage: Stage-0 Fetch Operator limit: 1 {code} > Hive UDF pow limits the second input to integer when the first input is a > decimal > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5802 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5802 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Types, UDF > Affects Versions: 0.12.0 > Reporter: Xuefu Zhang > Assignee: Xuefu Zhang > > For example, > {code} > hive> desc test; > OK > i int None > b boolean None > d double None > s string None > dec decimal(5,2) None > hive> explain select pow(dec, 2.5) from test; > FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10014]: Line 1:15 Wrong arguments '2.5': No > matching method for class org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.UDFPower with > (decimal(5,2), double). Possible choices: _FUNC_(decimal(65,30), int) > _FUNC_(double, double) _FUNC_(double, int) > {code} > This seems too restrictive. MySQL, on the other hand, supports fractional > power as the second input. > {code} > mysql> select pow(d, 2.5) from test; > mysql> desc test; > +-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ > | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | > +-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ > | i | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | > | b | tinyint(1) | YES | | NULL | | > | d | double | YES | | NULL | | > | s | varchar(5) | YES | | NULL | | > | dd | decimal(5,2) | YES | | NULL | | > +-------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ > 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) > mysql> select pow(dd, 2.5) from test; > +-------------------+ > | pow(dd, 2.5) | > +-------------------+ > | 2570.215713318881 | > +-------------------+ > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > {code} > Hive should also support this. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)