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Szehon Ho commented on HIVE-7279: --------------------------------- FYI [~leftylev] > UDF format_number() does not work on DECIMAL types > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-7279 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7279 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: UDF > Reporter: Szehon Ho > Assignee: Wilbur Yang > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.14.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-7279.1.patch, HIVE-7279.2.patch > > > I believe UDF format should work on decimal types. > {noformat} > hive> select format_number(decimal_1.u,1) from decimal_1; > FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10016]: Line 1:21 Argument type mismatch > 'u': Argument 1 of function FORMAT_NUMBER must be "tinyint" or "smallint" or > "int" or "bigint" or "double" or "float", but "decimal(5,0)" was found. > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)