[HIVE-6047] Permanent UDFs in Hive

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: UDF
• Assignee: Jason Dere
• Reporter: Jason Dere
• Created: 17/Dec/13 20:41
• Updated: 08/Sep/14 07:54
• Resolved: 29/Mar/14 08:11

Description

Currently Hive only supports temporary UDFs which must be re-registered when starting up a Hive session. Provide some support to register permanent UDFs with Hive.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HIVE-709 support for adding new functions (not temporary)
• is related to: HIVE-6744 Permanent UDF lookup fails when current DB has uppercase letters

Sub-Tasks

• Allow user-defined functions to be qualified with database name: Resolved
• Metastore support for permanent UDFs: Resolved
• Specify jars/files when creating permanent UDFs: Resolved
• Add schema upgrade scripts for metastore changes related to permanent functions: Resolved