[HIVE-6012] restore backward compatibility of arithmetic operations

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Assignee: Jason Dere
• Reporter: Thejas Nair
• Created: 12/Dec/13 00:03
• Updated: 29/Dec/14 09:53
• Resolved: 15/Mar/14 00:07

Description

HIVE-5356 changed the behavior of some of the arithmetic operations, and the change is not backward compatible, as pointed out in this jira comment

int / int => decimal
float / float => double
float * float => double
float + float => double

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-5356 Move arithmatic UDFs to generic UDF implementations