Good to know, thanks for your reply. On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:42 AM, Alex Behm <alex.b...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> I don't think we have a test table in 'functional' with negative values. > > As far as I can tell, the table 'functional.overflow' is a text table that > contains values that are larger/smaller than the maximum/minimum type > declare for that column. > When overflowing during a text scan, Impala will materialize the max value > for that column (based on the column type in the schema), whereas Hive will > return NULL or -Infinity. > So I'd say the behavior you are seeing is expected. > > Alex > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Lars Volker <l...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > while writing tests for IMPALA-3909 I tried to find a test table in > > 'functional' that has non-pathologic negative integer and float values > but > > couldn't find one. Does anyone know of a table with negative values in > it? > > > > I did find functional.overflow, but Hive returns NULL when querying it. > Is > > that expected or a Hive bug? > > > > Thanks a lot, Lars > > >
