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Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-3976: --------------------------------------- We currently do not have qualifiers (20,2) for types in the hive language. This sounds like a fairly involved change I am very curious how they will interact with the already existing system. > Support specifying scale and precision with Hive decimal type > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3976 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3976 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Query Processor, Types > Reporter: Mark Grover > Assignee: Xuefu Zhang > > HIVE-2693 introduced support for Decimal datatype in Hive. However, the > current implementation has unlimited precision and provides no way to specify > precision and scale when creating the table. > For example, MySQL allows users to specify scale and precision of the decimal > datatype when creating the table: > {code} > CREATE TABLE numbers (a DECIMAL(20,2)); > {code} > Hive should support something similar too. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira