Hi Arvind, Before I dig deeper with the patch on that jira, I was wondering if it is relevant that what I am trying is not an aggregate function (no group by involved). I am writing a row level UDF but would like all fields in the row to be presented to the udf. So my query literally is:
"select myudf(*) from mytable;" Do you think the patch might address my use case even though my UDF is not a UDAF? Thanks, Pradeep ________________________________ From: Arvind Prabhakar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 5:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: UDF which takes entire row as arg Hi Pradeep, See HIVE-287 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-287> . The most recent patch supplied with this Jira allows you to create UDAFs that support the FUNCTION(STAR) syntax. You can apply this patch to your local working copy and see if that addresses your problem. Also feel free to ask questions regarding anything that this patch provides. Arvind On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Pradeep Kamath <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I wanted to implement a UDF which takes the entire row of input as argument. Unfortunately when I call it using select myudf(*) from my table, I get : FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:16 mismatched input '*' expecting ) in function specification Is this not allowed? Thanks, Pradeep
