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Szehon Ho commented on HIVE-12983:
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Yea sounds better.
I think it still makes it a bit more tricky for an end-user to parse (as I
imagine they probably only care about the major.minor version, in a sql
script). But its not unreasonable, go for it if you feel it has a good
use-case.
> Provide a builtin function to get Hive version
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>
> Key: HIVE-12983
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12983
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: UDF
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Lenni Kuff
> Assignee: Lenni Kuff
> Attachments: HIVE-12983.1.patch
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> It would be nice to have a builtin function that would return the Hive
> version. This would make it easier for a users and tests to programmatically
> check the Hive version in a SQL script. It's also useful so a client can
> check the Hive version on a remote cluster.
> For example:
> {code}
> beeline> SELECT version();
> 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT from 208ab352311a6cbbcd1f7fcd40964da2dbc6703d by lskuff source
> checksum 8e971cda755f6b3fb528c233c40eb50a
> {code}
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