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Nandakumar commented on HIVE-15792:
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Sure, [~thejas].
I don't have write access to wiki. Requested access in user mailing list.
Will update it, once the access is provided.
> Hive should raise SemanticException when LPAD/RPAD pad character's length is 0
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> Key: HIVE-15792
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15792
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Zoltan Chovan
> Assignee: Nandakumar
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.2.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-15792.000.patch, HIVE-15792.001.patch,
> HIVE-15792.002.patch
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> For example SELECT LPAD('A', 2, ''); will cause an infinite loop and the
> running query will hang without any error.
> It would be great if this could be prevented by checking the pad character's
> length and if it's 0 then throw a SemanticException.
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