Add Support for BigDecimal Java data type as the "NumericType" AbstractType
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Key: CASSANDRA-2883
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2883
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Core
Affects Versions: 0.8.1
Reporter: Rick Shaw
Priority: Trivial
Fix For: 0.8.2
The JDBC Driver suite needs support for {{BigDecimal}} to complete it's data
type support for {{ResultSet}} and {{PreparedStatement}}. This datatype could
also be used to represent numeric (non-integer) counter values. This is a very
simple addition to the collection of data types supported by Cassandra. It is
quite versatile like {{BigInteger}}. It can represent decimal numbers of
virtually any precision and scale. It is represented in Java as an arbitrary
precision integer unscaled value ( think {{IntegerType}} )and a 32-bit integer
scale factor, which could be represented as a {{IntegerType}} as well. This
could share much of the logic from the {{BigInteger}} ({{IntegerType}})
implementation.
CQL would need to add a datatype (numeric?). Decimal literal support is already
provided in CQL.
This is low hanging fruit.
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