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Jonathan Coveney commented on PIG-2764:
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Alan: it seemed like something that would be good to support, since I know
there are financial users who could potentially leverage something like this.
Agreed that a fast, fixed point type would be excellent as well. Know any good
libraries?
This was all done rogue because I wanted to know how hard it is to implement a
type (answer: tedious and lots of corner cases, but not hard per se), and I
thought it would be useful to have.
> Add a biginteger and bigdecimal type to pig
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> Key: PIG-2764
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2764
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jonathan Coveney
> Assignee: Jonathan Coveney
> Attachments: PIG-2764-0.patch, PIG-2764-1.patch
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> I think it would be useful for applications where precision is more important
> than speed to have the option of using java's bigdecimal and biginteger types
> natively.
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