Tom Temple created HIVE-7177: -------------------------------- Summary: percentile_approx very inaccurate with high multiplicities in the data Key: HIVE-7177 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7177 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: UDF Affects Versions: 0.12.0 Environment: Redhat 5.10 running Cloudera 5.0.0 Reporter: Tom Temple
To reproduce: 1) create a table with a single integer column 2) with values: 1 million, 2 million, 3 million, and 4 million each repeated a quarter million times. 3) percentile_approx(cast(col_0 as double), array(0.33,0.34),1000000) Expected results: [2000000.0,2000000.0] Actual results: [1280000.0,1320000.0] (I might be off by 40000 here) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)