[HIVE-2942] substr on string containing UTF-8 characters produces StringIndexOutOfBoundsException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Assignee: Kevin Wilfong
• Reporter: Kevin Wilfong
• Created: 10/Apr/12 20:26
• Updated: 10/Jan/13 19:53
• Resolved: 15/Apr/12 23:36

Description

After HIVE-2792, the substr function produces a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when called on a string containing UTF-8 characters without the length argument being present.

E.g.
select substr(str, 1) from table1;

now fails with that exception if str contains a UTF-8 character for any row in the table.