[HIVE-3125] sort_array doesn't work with LazyPrimitive

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: UDF
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Philip Tromans
• Reporter: Philip Tromans
• Created: 13/Jun/12 11:06
• Updated: 10/Jan/13 19:52
• Resolved: 23/Jun/12 21:34

Description

The sort_array function doesn't work against data that's actually come out of a table. The test suite only covers constants given in the query.

If you try and use sort_array on an array from a table, then you get a ClassCastException that you can't convert LazyX to Comparable.