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Xuefu Zhang commented on AVRO-1402:
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Looking the patch, the schema and data encoding look good to me. One minor
thought for consideration though, is that (precision, scale), when mentioned at
the schema level, implies "max". Thus, the property names could be just
"precision" and "scale". Very insignificant though.
> Support for DECIMAL primitive type
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> Key: AVRO-1402
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1402
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 1.7.5
> Reporter: Mariano Dominguez
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: Hive
> Attachments: AVRO-1402.patch, AVRO-1402.patch
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> Currently, Avro does not seem to support a DECIMAL type or equivalent.
> http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.5/spec.html#schema_primitive
> Adding DECIMAL support would be particularly interesting when converting
> types from Avro to Hive, since DECIMAL is already a supported data type in
> Hive (0.11.0).
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