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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-6620:
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The above test failure is transient and unrelated.
> UDF printf doesn't take either CHAR or VARCHAR as the first argument
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>
> Key: HIVE-6620
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6620
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: UDF
> Affects Versions: 0.12.0
> Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
> Assignee: Xuefu Zhang
> Attachments: HIVE-6620.1.patch, HIVE-6620.patch, HIVE-6620.patch,
> HIVE-6620.patch
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> {code}
> hive> desc vc;
> OK
> c char(5) None
> vc varchar(7) None
> s string None
> hive> select printf(c) from vc;
> FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10016]: Line 1:14 Argument type mismatch
> 'c': Argument 1 of function PRINTF must be "string", but "char(5)" was found.
> {code}
> However, if the argument is string type, the query runs successfully.
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