[HIVE-9717] The max/min function used by AggrStats for decimal type is not what we expected

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0, 1.0.0, 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Statistics
• Assignee: Pengcheng Xiong
• Reporter: Pengcheng Xiong
• Created: 18/Feb/15 19:16
• Updated: 18/May/15 19:51
• Resolved: 10/Apr/15 00:10

Description

In current version hive-schema-1.2.0, in TABLE PART_COL_STATS, we store the "BIG_DECIMAL_LOW_VALUE" and "BIG_DECIMAL_HIGH_VALUE" as varchar. For example,

derby
"BIG_DECIMAL_LOW_VALUE" VARCHAR(4000), "BIG_DECIMAL_HIGH_VALUE" VARCHAR(4000)

mssql
BIG_DECIMAL_HIGH_VALUE varchar(255) NULL,
BIG_DECIMAL_LOW_VALUE varchar(255) NULL,

mysql
`BIG_DECIMAL_LOW_VALUE` varchar(4000) CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_bin,
`BIG_DECIMAL_HIGH_VALUE` varchar(4000) CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_bin,

oracle
BIG_DECIMAL_LOW_VALUE VARCHAR2(4000),
BIG_DECIMAL_HIGH_VALUE VARCHAR2(4000),

postgres
"BIG_DECIMAL_LOW_VALUE" character varying(4000) DEFAULT NULL::character varying,
"BIG_DECIMAL_HIGH_VALUE" character varying(4000) DEFAULT NULL::character varying,

And, when we do the aggrstats, we do a MAX/MIN of all the BIG_DECIMAL_HIGH_VALU/BIG_DECIMAL_LOW_VALUEE of partitions. We are expecting a max/min of a decimal (a number). However, it is actually a max/min of a varchar (a string). As a result, '900' is more than '1000'. This also affects the extrapolation of the status. The proposed solution is to use a CAST function to cast it to decimal.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-9647 Discrepancy in cardinality estimates between partitioned and un-partitioned tables
• relates to: HIVE-9647 Discrepancy in cardinality estimates between partitioned and un-partitioned tables