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Hudson commented on HIVE-3820: ------------------------------ Integrated in Hive-trunk-hadoop2 #138 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Hive-trunk-hadoop2/138/]) HIVE-3820 Consider creating a literal like D or BD for representing Decimal type constants (Gunther Hagleitner via Ashutosh Chauhan) (Revision 1459298) Result = FAILURE hashutosh : http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Apache-SVN&view=rev&rev=1459298 Files : * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/HiveLexer.g * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/IdentifiersParser.g * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/TypeCheckProcFactory.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/literal_decimal.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientpositive/literal_decimal.q.out * /hive/trunk/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/primitive/JavaBigDecimalObjectInspector.java > Consider creating a literal like "D" or "BD" for representing Decimal type > constants > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-3820 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3820 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Mark Grover > Assignee: Gunther Hagleitner > Fix For: 0.11.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-3820.1.patch, HIVE-3820.2.patch, > HIVE-3820.D8823.1.patch > > > When the HIVE-2693 gets committed, users are going to see this behavior: > {code} > hive> select cast(3.14 as decimal) from decimal_3 limit 1; > 3.140000000000000124344978758017532527446746826171875 > {code} > That's intuitively incorrect but is the case because 3.14 (double) is being > converted to BigDecimal because of which there is a precision mismatch. > We should consider creating a new literal for expressing constants of Decimal > type as Gunther suggested in HIVE-2693. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira