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Aihua Xu commented on HIVE-9497: -------------------------------- Can you give an example for this issue? > Implicit conversion between Varchar and Char should result in Varchar > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-9497 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9497 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Pavas Garg > Labels: Hive > > In situations where implicit conversion happen between varchar and char, the > result should be either varchar or char but not string. > A string type result causes a major issue for SAS, an analytic application > Varchar with bigger length should be the implicit conversion. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)