[HIVE-6637] UDF in_file() doesn't take CHAR or VARCHAR as input

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Types, UDF
• Tags: TODOC14
• Assignee: Ashish Singh
• Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
• Created: 12/Mar/14 18:00
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:43
• Resolved: 14/Jul/14 23:08

Description

hive> desc alter_varchar_1;
key                 	string              	None                
value               	varchar(3)          	None                
key2                	int                 	None                
value2              	varchar(10)         	None                
hive> select in_file(value, value2) from alter_varchar_1;
FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10016]: Line 1:15 Argument type mismatch 'value': The 1st argument of function IN_FILE must be a string but org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive.WritableHiveVarcharObjectInspector@10f1f34a was given.