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Jonathan Chang commented on HIVE-2509: -------------------------------------- 0L just brings this up to parity with C but C doesn't have convenient shorthands for shorts/chars so I'm open to suggestions on how to best represent these. > Literal bigint > -------------- > > Key: HIVE-2509 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2509 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Jonathan Chang > Assignee: Jonathan Chang > Attachments: D15.1.patch, D15.1.patch > > > Typing bigints is a pain because you have to write CAST(0 AS BIGINT). We > should let people type 0L instead. -- 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