[AVRO-2097] Improve documentation: emphasize that default values are interpreted in physical type and not in logical

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
• Component/s: doc
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nándor Kollár
• Created: 17/Oct/17 07:56
• Updated: 17/Oct/17 07:57

Description

Documentation is not clear how default values specified in the schema are interpreted. It is very easy to misunderstand, and think that setting a decimal filed's default value to "0.00" is interpreted as 0.00 decimal, but in fact it isn't! The default value is interpreted in the underlying physical type, and not in the logical type.

Issue Links

• relates to: AVRO-2087 Allow specifying default values for logical types in human-readable form