[HIVE-12983] Provide a builtin function to get Hive version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: UDF
• Assignee: Lenni Kuff
• Reporter: Lenni Kuff
• Created: 02/Feb/16 17:51
• Updated: 05/Sep/16 15:19
• Resolved: 31/May/16 20:30

Description

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:

beeline> SELECT version();

2.1.0-SNAPSHOT r208ab352311a6cbbcd1f7fcd40964da2dbc6703d