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[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-3036) hive should support BigDecimal
datatype
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Mikhail Bautin commented on HIVE-3036:
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Actually this seems to be a duplicate of HIVE-2693.
> hive should support BigDecimal datatype
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> Key: HIVE-3036
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3036
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Query Processor, Types
> Affects Versions: 0.7.1, 0.8.0, 0.8.1
> Reporter: Anurag Tangri
>
> hive has support for big int but people have use cases where they need decimal precision to a big value.
> Values in question are like decimal(x,y).
> for eg. decimal of form (17,6) which cannot be represented by float/double.
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