Anurag created HIVE-3036:
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Summary: hive should support BigDecimal datatype
Key: HIVE-3036
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3036
Project: Hive
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Query Processor
Affects Versions: 0.8.1, 0.8.0, 0.7.1
Reporter: Anurag
Fix For: 0.10.0
hive has support for big int but people have use cases where they need decimal
precision to a big value.
Values in question are like decimal(x,y).
for eg. decimal of form (17,6) which cannot be represented by float/double.
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