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Nick Dimiduk commented on HIVE-2903: ------------------------------------ Hi Navis. Mind having a look at the Ordered* types implemented in HBASE-8693, and the associated encoding strategies in HBASE-8201? You should find some useful implementations there. > Numeric binary type keys are not compared properly > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2903 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2903 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: HBase Handler > Reporter: Navis > Assignee: Navis > Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--HIVE-2903.D2481.1.patch, > ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--HIVE-2903.D2481.2.patch > > > In current binary format for numbers, minus values are always greater than > plus values, for example. > {code} > System.our.println(Bytes.compareTo(Bytes.toBytes(-100), Bytes.toBytes(100))); > // 255 > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)