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Ashutosh Chauhan commented on HIVE-13248: ----------------------------------------- [~jdere] Is this ready to go in? > Change date_add/date_sub/to_date functions to return Date type rather than > String > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-13248 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13248 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: UDF > Affects Versions: 2.0.0, 2.1.0 > Reporter: Jason Dere > Assignee: Jason Dere > Attachments: HIVE-13248.1.patch, HIVE-13248.2.patch, > HIVE-13248.3.patch > > > Some of the original "date" related functions return string values rather > than Date values, because they were created before the Date type existed in > Hive. We can try to change these to return Date in the 2.x line. > Date values should be implicitly convertible to String. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)