Xuefu Zhang created HIVE-5438: --------------------------------- Summary: Introduce different server modes for error handling in Hive server2 Key: HIVE-5438 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5438 Project: Hive Issue Type: New Feature Components: HiveServer2 Affects Versions: 0.11.0 Reporter: Xuefu Zhang Assignee: Xuefu Zhang
Currently Hive handles errors such as divide-by-zero, numeric overflow/iunderflow, type conversion, etc. by putting null values. While the behaviours isn't consistent all the time (see HIVE-5436 as an example), which needs to be addressed, it's desirable to introduce different server modes and allow user to choose different error handling. For instance, instead of null, MAX value may be placed in case of number overflow. Major databases have such settings. For example, mysql has a setting for data overflow and a setting specifically for divide-by-zero. It's desirable for Hive to give such flexibility to the user. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)