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Edward Capriolo edited comment on HIVE-2482 at 8/12/13 8:45 PM: ---------------------------------------------------------------- I am ok with it as well, but remember everything you change breaks someones workflow. was (Author: appodictic): I am ok with it as well, but temember everything you change breaks someones workflow. > Convenience UDFs for binary data type > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2482 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2482 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan > Assignee: Mark Wagner > Fix For: 0.12.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-2482.1.patch, HIVE-2482.2.patch, HIVE-2482.3.patch, > HIVE-2482.4.patch > > > HIVE-2380 introduced binary data type in Hive. It will be good to have > following udfs to make it more useful: > * UDF's to convert to/from hex string > * UDF's to convert to/from string using a specific encoding > * UDF's to convert to/from base64 string -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira