Please also see this comment from Doug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1269?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13592402#comment-13592402
Hive can presently choose to implement it that way, and a lack of top level integration of the BigDecimal data type in Avro specs should not be blocking them I think. On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Mariano Dominguez (JIRA) wrote: > Mariano Dominguez created AVRO-1402: > --------------------------------------- > > Summary: Support for DECIMAL primitive type > Key: AVRO-1402 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1402 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 1.7.5 > Reporter: Mariano Dominguez > Priority: Minor > > > Currently, Avro does not seem to support a DECIMAL type or equivalent. > > http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.5/spec.html#schema_primitive > > Adding DECIMAL support would be particularly interesting when converting > types from Avro to Hive, since DECIMAL is already a supported data type in > Hive (0.11.0). > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.1#6144) > -- Harsh J
