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Skye Wanderman-Milne commented on AVRO-1402:
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This looks great Tom! If I understand correctly, this also allows for a single
logical type to have multiple possible encodings; for example, we could someday
add an alternate decimal encoding that is backed by "fixed" rather than
"bytes". One question: what do you mean by "Language implementations may choose
to represent logical types with an appropriate native type, although this is
not required"? Is this referring to logical types not explicitly defined in the
spec?
> Support for DECIMAL 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
> Assignee: Tom White
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: Hive
> Fix For: 1.7.7
>
> Attachments: AVRO-1402-logical-type-spec.patch, AVRO-1402.patch,
> AVRO-1402.patch, AVRO-1402.patch, AVRO-1402.patch,
> UnixEpochRecordMapping.patch
>
>
> 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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