[jira] [Created] (HIVE-7373) Hive should not remove trailing zeros for decimal numbers

["Xuefu Zhang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Xuefu Zhang created HIVE-7373:
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             Summary: Hive should not remove trailing zeros for decimal numbers
                 Key: HIVE-7373
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7373
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Types
    Affects Versions: 0.13.1, 0.13.0
            Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
            Assignee: Xuefu Zhang


Currently Hive blindly removes trailing zeros of a decimal input number as sort of standardization. This is questionable in theory and problematic in practice.

1. In decimal context,  number 3.140000 has a different semantic meaning from number 3.14. Removing trailing zeroes makes the meaning lost.

2. In a extreme case, 0.0 has (p, s) as (1, 1). Hive removes trailing zeros, and then the number becomes 0, which has (p, s) of (1, 0). Thus, for a decimal column of (1,1), input such as 0.0, 0.00, and so on becomes NULL because the column doesn't allow a decimal number with integer part.

Therefore, I propose Hive preserve the trailing zeroes. With this, in above example, 0.0, 0.00, and 0.0000 will be represented as 0.0 (precision=1, scale=1) internally.



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