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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:03:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "Guy le Mar (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
To: hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: [jira] Created: (HIVE-1863) Boolean columns in Hive tables
 containing NULL are treated as FALSE by the Hive JDBC driver.
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Boolean columns in Hive tables containing NULL are treated as FALSE by the Hive JDBC driver.
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                 Key: HIVE-1863
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1863
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Drivers
    Affects Versions: 0.5.0
            Reporter: Guy le Mar


(1) Using the Hive CLI, create a table using...
create table dt4_boolean
(
        dt4_id          int,
        dt4_testbool    boolean,
        dt4_string      string
)
row format delimited
        fields  terminated by ','
        lines  terminated by '\n';

(2) Create a file containing the following text...
1,true,Value is True
2,null,Data says null and must be null
3,,No value that means null
4,NoIdea,Data says NoIdea that's gonna be null
5,false,Value is FALSE

(3) Load the data in the file into the Hive table...
load data local inpath '<DATA FILE PATH>' overwrite into table dt4_boolean;

(4) Check the table works as expected using the Hive CLI...
hive> select * from dt4_boolean;
OK
1	true	Value is True
2	NULL	Data says null and must be null
3	NULL	No value that means null
4	NULL	Data says NoIdea that's gonna be null
5	false	Value is FALSE
Time taken: 0.049 seconds

(5) Using the Hive JDBC driver, execute the same Hive query (select * from dt4_boolean)
(5.1) The "row_str" values obtained by the Hive JDBC driver for deserialization are correct...
1	true	Value is True
2	NULL	Data says null and must be null
3	NULL	No value that means null
4	NULL	Data says NoIdea that's gonna be null
5	false	Value is FALSE

(5.2) However, when these "row_str" are deserialized by the DynamicSerDe to a java.lang.Object, the NULL boolean values are converted to FALSE - instead of being null.

As a consequence, the application making use of the Hive JDBC driver produces this (incorrect) output...

SQL> select dt4_id, dt4_testbool from dt4_boolean;

    DT4_ID DT4_TESTBOOL
---------- ------------
         1            true
         2            false
         3            false
         4            false
         5            false

...instead of producing this (correct) output...
SQL> select dt4_id, dt4_testbool from dt4_boolean;

    DT4_ID DT4_TESTBOOL
---------- ------------
         1            true
         2            NULL
         3            NULL
         4            NULL
         5            false


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