[HIVE-18627] PPD: Handle FLOAT boxing differently for single/double precision constants

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Types
• Assignee: Gopal Vijayaraghavan
• Reporter: Gopal Vijayaraghavan
• Created: 06/Feb/18 00:04
• Updated: 22/May/18 23:15
• Resolved: 12/Feb/18 07:03

Description

Constants like 0.1 and 0.3 are differently boxed based on intermediate precision of the compiler codepath.

Disabling CBO produces 0.1BD constants which fail to box correctly to Double/Float.

Enabling CBO fixes this issue, but cannot be applied all queries in Hive.