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Tom White updated AVRO-1402:
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Attachment: AVRO-1402.patch
Here's a patch that does roughly what you suggest. I used a name rather than a
class, so that the reader can use the schema to see if a custom encoding is
needed.
BTW I think AVRO-1469 is related. Would the approach here satisfy the
requirements of AVRO-1469?
> Have you considered using a lexicographic-friendly format?
I had a look, but I don't think that's a requirement for Hive for example.
> Support for DECIMAL primitive type
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> 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
> Labels: Hive
> Attachments: AVRO-1402.patch, AVRO-1402.patch
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> 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).
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