I agree that they are important. They are currently generic types and handled by Kryo, which has (AFAIK) proper serializers for them. Are there more benefits of native support (other than more compact serialization) that you are thinking of?
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Timo Walther <twal...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm not sure if we already had a discussion about it but as we are > currently adding new types like the Either type, I would like to discuss it > again. I think especially for business or scientific applications it makes > sense to support the BigInteger and BigDecimal types natively. In my > opinion they are as important as Date or Void and should be added as > BasicTypes. I need them for the SQL prototype (FLINK-2099) but I think > people working with the Table API or Java/Scala API would also benefit from > it. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > Timo >
