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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-7149:
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None of above test failures seems related to the patch. Patch committed to
trunk. Thanks to Brock for the review.
> Parquet not able to handle negative decimal numbers
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> Key: HIVE-7149
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7149
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Serializers/Deserializers
> Affects Versions: 0.14.0
> Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
> Assignee: Xuefu Zhang
> Fix For: 0.14.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-7149.patch
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> Because of storing decimal numbers as fixed length bytes, Parquet Serde pads
> leading zeros for decimal numbers that has less bytes representation. This
> works fine for positive decimals, but messes up with negative ones, for
> which, leading 1 bits are needed.
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