[SPARK-8193] date/time function: current_timestamp

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Sprint: Spark 1.5 release
• Assignee: Adrian Wang
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 09/Jun/15 06:08
• Updated: 07/Jul/15 05:49
• Resolved: 04/Jul/15 05:20

Description

current_timestamp(): timestamp

Returns the current timestamp at the start of query evaluation (as of Hive 1.2.0). All calls of current_timestamp within the same query return the same value.

We should just replace this with a timestamp literal in the optimizer.

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-8864 Date/time function and data type design
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6985 (adrian-wang)