[HIVE-5748] Revisit all data types and numeric operators to align Hive with SQL standard or other DB's implementation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Types
• Assignee: Xuefu Zhang
• Reporter: Xuefu Zhang
• Created: 05/Nov/13 14:15
• Updated: 05/Nov/13 14:16

Description

HIVE-3976 and its child tasks have brought new additions and behavior changes in order to support Decimal precision/scale and to be more in line with SQL standard or other DB's implementation. However, these tasks may not cover all data types and all numeric operators. This task to revisit these aspects and do whatever cleanup that's necessary. More importantly, clear documentation is required.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-5356 Move arithmatic UDFs to generic UDF implementations