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Hari Sankar Sivarama Subramaniyan commented on HIVE-5352: --------------------------------------------------------- [~hagleitn] will this change work for cast('1.2e5' as int) ? > cast('1.0' as int) returns null > ------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5352 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5352 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Gunther Hagleitner > Assignee: Gunther Hagleitner > Attachments: HIVE-5352.1.patch, HIVE-5352.2.patch, HIVE-5352.3.patch > > > Casting strings to int/smallint/bigint/tinyint yields null if the string > isn't a 'pure' integer. '1.0', '2.4', '1e5' all return null. I think for > those cases the cast should return the truncated int (i.e.: if c is string, > cast(c as int) should be the same as cast(cast(c as float) as int). > This is in line with the standard and is the same behavior as mysql and > oracle. (postgres and sql server throw error, see first answer here: > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/af3eff9c-737b-42fe-9016-05da9203a667/oracle-does-understand-cast10-as-int-why-sql-server-does-not) -- 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