Zoltan Haindrich created HIVE-24940: ---------------------------------------
Summary: PartitionPruner may reject partitionfilter expressions evaluating to unknown if the filter is safe Key: HIVE-24940 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-24940 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Zoltan Haindrich Assignee: Zoltan Haindrich {code} CREATE TABLE t1pstring (col1 string) PARTITIONED BY (p1 string); INSERT INTO t1pstring PARTITION (p1) VALUES ("2020","2020"),("2021","2021"),("2021_backup","2021_backup"),('8888','8888'),('88889','88889'),('8888_a','8888_a'),('a8888','a8888'); explain extended SELECT count(*) FROM t1pstring WHERE p1=8888; [...] | Truncated Path -> Alias: | | /t1pstring/p1=2021_backup [t1pstring] | | /t1pstring/p1=8888 [t1pstring] | | /t1pstring/p1=8888_a [t1pstring] | | /t1pstring/p1=a8888 [t1pstring] | [...] {code} note: * for all values which are interpretable as integers - the equals is evaluated and the result is false * for {{NULL}} values and for non-integer values ({{a8888}}) the comparision results a {{NULL}} which is retained * {{NULL}} -s are retained because there is a preprocessing step which removes functions which are dependant of non-partition columns as well - and replaces them with a {{NULL}} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)