[SPARK-9356] Remove the internal use of DecimalType.Unlimited

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Sprint: Spark 1.5 release
• Assignee: Yijie Shen
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 26/Jul/15 07:27
• Updated: 27/Jul/15 03:42
• Resolved: 26/Jul/15 17:29

Description

We still have a few places that reference DecimalType.Unlimited, which is deprecated. We should remove those cases (or replace them with fixed precision).

> git grep Unlimited

sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/Cast.scala:      case DecimalType.Unlimited =>
sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/NullFunctionsSuite.scala:      Literal.create(null, DecimalType.Unlimited),
sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/PartitioningUtils.scala:   *   DoubleType -> DecimalType.Unlimited ->

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-9370 Support DecimalType in UnsafeRow
• relates to: SPARK-9069 Remove DecimalType unlimited precision/scale support
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7671 (yjshen)