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Zheng Shao commented on HIVE-656:
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MySQL mod function (which returns negative numbers when the first number is
negative)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mathematical-functions.html#function_mod
> Add a POSITIVE_MOD function
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> Key: HIVE-656
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-656
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Zheng Shao
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> There are a lot of cases people want to get a positive modulo result.
> For example, people want to bucket the data into 10 buckets. They use the
> hash code in Hive (based on Java) which can return a negative number. Then
> they need this POSITIVE_MOD(a, b) to return the results.
> Otherwise they can still do it but it will be very verbose:
> {code}
> ((hash(xxx) % 10) + 10) % 10
> {code}
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