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Gopal V commented on HIVE-649: ------------------------------ Ah, I just hit the need for this and ran the patch - didn't associate your comment with the patch. I just realized a few minutes later that our constant folding engine does not work on UDFs added via "ADD JAR" & therefore was running it on each node, with slight drifts. > [UDF] now() for getting current time > ------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-649 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-649 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: UDF > Reporter: Min Zhou > Assignee: Lars Francke > Attachments: HIVE-649.2.patch, HIVE-649.patch > > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_now -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)