[HIVE-3036] hive should support BigDecimal datatype

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.1, 0.8.0, 0.8.1
• Component/s: Query Processor, Types
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Anurag Tangri
• Created: 18/May/12 06:37
• Updated: 06/May/13 18:17
• Resolved: 19/Dec/12 06:32

Description

hive has support for big int but people have use cases where they need decimal precision to a big value.

Values in question are like decimal(x,y).

for eg. decimal of form (17,6) which cannot be represented by float/double.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-2693 Add DECIMAL data type
• is related to: HIVE-2693 Add DECIMAL data type