[HIVE-6568] Vectorized cast of decimal to string and timestamp produces incorrect result.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Vectorization
• Assignee: Jitendra Nath Pandey
• Reporter: Jitendra Nath Pandey
• Created: 06/Mar/14 17:36
• Updated: 12/Mar/14 20:04
• Resolved: 12/Mar/14 20:04

Description

A decimal value 1.23 with scale 5 is represented in string as 1.23000. This behavior is different from HiveDecimal behavior.
The difference in cast to timestamp is due to more aggressive rounding in vectorized expression.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HIVE-6511 casting from decimal to tinyint,smallint, int and bigint generates different result when vectorization is on
• is blocked by: HIVE-6531 Runtime errors in vectorized execution.