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Nick Dimiduk commented on HIVE-2903:
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Hi Navis. Mind having a look at the Ordered* types implemented in HBASE-8693,
and the associated encoding strategies in HBASE-8201? You should find some
useful implementations there.
> Numeric binary type keys are not compared properly
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>
> Key: HIVE-2903
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2903
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HBase Handler
> Reporter: Navis
> Assignee: Navis
> Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--HIVE-2903.D2481.1.patch,
> ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--HIVE-2903.D2481.2.patch
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> In current binary format for numbers, minus values are always greater than
> plus values, for example.
> {code}
> System.our.println(Bytes.compareTo(Bytes.toBytes(-100), Bytes.toBytes(100)));
> // 255
> {code}
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