[HIVE-3635] allow 't', 'T', '1', 'f', 'F', and '0' to be allowable true/false values for the boolean hive type

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: CLI
• Labels: TODOC14
• Release Note: New configuration, hive.lazysimple.extended_boolean_literal, needs to be documented.
• Assignee: Xuefu Zhang
• Reporter: Alexander Alten-Lorenz
• Created: 29/Oct/12 07:07
• Updated: 13/Apr/15 04:02
• Resolved: 07/Mar/14 17:09

Description

interpret t as true and f as false for boolean types. PostgreSQL exports represent it that way.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-3604 Casting strings to booleans gives unexpected result
• links to: https://reviews.apache.org/r/18382/