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ASF GitHub Bot commented on DRILL-4834:
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Github user daveoshinsky commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/570#discussion_r160791435
--- Diff: exec/vector/src/main/codegen/templates/NullableValueVectors.java
---
@@ -327,13 +327,17 @@ public Mutator getMutator(){
return v;
}
- public void copyFrom(int fromIndex, int thisIndex,
Nullable${minor.class}Vector from){
+ protected void copyFromUnsafe(int fromIndex, int thisIndex,
Nullable${minor.class}Vector from){
--- End diff --
I added a copyFromSafe() method elsewhere, which is a "safe copy" that
should not throw an exception due to overwriting the end of the buffer.
Because I did that, and realizing that copyFrom() is actually UNSAFE (can throw
the exception, which new copyFromSafe() is designed to avoid), I decided for
code clarity to change the name of this function. It has been over a year
since I wrote this code, and that is what I recall now.
> decimal implementation is vulnerable to overflow errors, and extremely complex
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: DRILL-4834
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4834
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Execution - Data Types
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Environment: Drill 1.7 on any platform
> Reporter: Dave Oshinsky
> Fix For: Future
>
>
> While working on a fix for DRILL-4704, logic was added to CastIntDecimal.java
> template to handle the situation where a precision is not supplied (i.e., the
> supplied precision is zero) for an integer value that is to be casted to a
> decimal. The Drill decimal implementation uses a limited selection of fixed
> decimal precision data types (the total number of decimal digits, i.e.,
> Decimal9, 18, 28, 38) to represent decimal values. If the destination
> precision is too small to represent the input integer that is being casted,
> there is no clean way to deal with the overflow error properly.
> While using fixed decimal precisions as is being done currently can lead to
> more efficient use of memory, it often will actually lead to less efficient
> use of memory (when the fixed precision is specified significantly larger
> than is actually needed to represent the numbers), and it results in a
> tremendous mushrooming of the complexity of the code. For each fixed
> precision (and there are only a limited set of selections, 9, 18, 28, 38,
> which itself leads to memory inefficiency), there is a separate set of code
> generated from templates. For each pairwise combination of decimal or
> non-decimal numeric types, there are multiple places in the code where
> conversions must be handled, or conditions must be included to handle the
> difference in precision between the two types. A one-size-fits-all approach
> (using a variable width vector to represent any decimal precision) would
> usually be more memory-efficient (since precisions are often over-specified),
> and would greatly simplify the code.
> Also see the DRILL-4184 issue, which is related.
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