[HIVE-624] Fix bug in TypeConverter

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Zheng Shao
• Reporter: Zheng Shao
• Created: 10/Jul/09 07:06
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:07
• Resolved: 11/Jul/09 01:51

Description

There is a bug in the Converter - we are converting all objects to Primitive Java objects instead of Writable.
This has caused some queries to fail:

SELECT IF(false, 1, cast(2 as smallint)) + 3 FROM any_table;