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Jonathan Chang commented on HIVE-2470: -------------------------------------- Reflection is a good example (and is actually the motivation for this diff in the first place). For example, if you have a function which evaluates an another function, say EVAL('NUMBER_ROWS'), it won't be known until initialize time whether EVAL is deterministic. > Improve support for Constant Object Inspectors > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2470 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2470 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Jonathan Chang > Assignee: Jonathan Chang > Attachments: HIVE-1360.part2.patch, HIVE-2470.patch > > > ConstantObjectInspectors are nice but they need to be more widely supported > and used. In particular, > * More functions need to be using them. > * There need to be facilities for propagating constness. > * Support for complex types must be added. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira