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Posted to commits@drill.apache.org by ts...@apache.org on 2015/05/01 20:08:24 UTC
[28/50] [abbrv] drill git commit: clarify NUMERIC data type
clarify NUMERIC data type
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/drill/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/drill/commit/ca09bb37
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/drill/tree/ca09bb37
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/drill/diff/ca09bb37
Branch: refs/heads/gh-pages
Commit: ca09bb37b0ef1dd1cc5837b1cdeacc1a3ee37af1
Parents: 456ee13
Author: Kristine Hahn <kh...@maprtech.com>
Authored: Thu Apr 30 09:29:46 2015 -0700
Committer: Kristine Hahn <kh...@maprtech.com>
Committed: Thu Apr 30 09:29:46 2015 -0700
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_docs/sql-reference/data-types/010-supported-data-types.md | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/drill/blob/ca09bb37/_docs/sql-reference/data-types/010-supported-data-types.md
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diff --git a/_docs/sql-reference/data-types/010-supported-data-types.md b/_docs/sql-reference/data-types/010-supported-data-types.md
index a628925..a789426 100644
--- a/_docs/sql-reference/data-types/010-supported-data-types.md
+++ b/_docs/sql-reference/data-types/010-supported-data-types.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Drill reads from and writes to data sources having a wide variety of types. Dril
<td valign="top">2015-12-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td valign="top">DECIMAL(p,s), or DEC(p,s), NUMERIC(p,s)</td>
+ <td valign="top">DECIMAL(p,s), or DEC(p,s), NUMERIC(p,s)***</td>
<td valign="top">38-digit precision number, precision is p, and scale is s</td>
<td valign="top">DECIMAL(6,2) is 1234.56, 4 digits before and 2 digits after the decimal point</td>
</tr>
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ Drill reads from and writes to data sources having a wide variety of types. Dril
</tr>
</table>
\* Not currently supported.
-\*\* Currently, Drill supports only variable-length strings.
+\*\* Currently, Drill supports only variable-length strings. .
+\*\*\* In this release the NUMERIC data type is an alias for the DECIMAL data type.
+
## Casting and Converting Data Types