[PARQUET-884] Add support for Decimal datatype to Parquet-Pig record reader

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: parquet-pig
• Assignee: Ellen Kletscher
• Reporter: Ellen Kletscher
• Created: 16/Feb/17 19:12
• Updated: 07/Jun/17 22:42
• Resolved: 07/Jun/17 22:23

Description

parquet.pig.ParquetLoader defaults the Parquet decimal datatype to bytearray. Would like to add support to convert to BigDecimal instead, which will turn garbage bytearrays into actual numbers.