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Anurag Tangri commented on HIVE-3036:
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Looked at some pig implementation where java's big decimal is not being used.
There is definitely a performance issue with java's big decimal but having this
feature is important in lot of financial institutions who care about precision
upto 8-12 places after decimal points.
They might not care right now about the performance hit vs having this in hive.
I suggest to include it in primitive types in hive along with other java types.
And can start working on it.
Any thoughts anyone ?
Thanks,
Anurag Tangri
> hive should support BigDecimal datatype
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> Key: HIVE-3036
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3036
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Query Processor
> Affects Versions: 0.7.1, 0.8.0, 0.8.1
> Reporter: Anurag Tangri
> Fix For: 0.10.0
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> 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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