GitHub user wangyum opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18153
[SPARK-20931][SQL] ABS function support string type. ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? ABS function support string type. Hive/MySQL support this feature. Ref: https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/4ba713ccd85c3706d195aeef9476e6e6363f1c21/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/udf/generic/GenericUDFAbs.java#L93 ## How was this patch tested? unit tests You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/wangyum/spark SPARK-20931 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18153.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #18153 ---- commit 209dbaf07ed93bdd66d89b0bc45ebdd898632e27 Author: Yuming Wang <wgy...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-05-31T03:40:19Z ABS function support string type. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org