[jira] [Created] (HIVE-3604) Casting strings to booleans gives unexpected result

[Ariel M (JIRA)]

Ariel M created HIVE-3604:
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             Summary: Casting strings to booleans gives unexpected result
                 Key: HIVE-3604
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3604
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: UDF
    Affects Versions: 0.8.1
         Environment: Amazon EMR
            Reporter: Ariel M


I would expect the following query to return false in both columns:

select 'false', cast('false' as boolean) from example_table limit 1;

but here are the actual results:

Total MapReduce CPU Time Spent: X seconds X msec
OK
false   true



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