Github user marmbrus commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/5350#discussion_r27756040
  
    --- Diff: 
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/stringOperations.scala
 ---
    @@ -258,11 +253,18 @@ case class Substring(str: Expression, pos: 
Expression, len: Expression) extends
           null
         } else {
           val start = po.asInstanceOf[Int]
    -      val length = ln.asInstanceOf[Int] 
    -
    +      val length = ln.asInstanceOf[Int]
           string match {
    -        case ba: Array[Byte] => slice(ba, start, length)
    -        case other => slice(other.toString, start, length)
    +        case ba: Array[Byte] =>
    +          val (st, end) = slicePos(start, length, () => ba.length)
    +          ba.slice(st, end)
    +        case s: UTF8String =>
    +          val (st, end) = slicePos(start, length, () => s.length)
    +          s.slice(st, end)
    +        case other =>
    --- End diff --
    
    Yeah, we probably need to add a rule for this in 
`FunctionArgumentConversion` to explicitly cast.  I assume this is a hive test? 
 I know we are pretty sloppy about this right now, but I think it would be best 
to start tightening up all of these cases as you find them.


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