I could image that some applications also want to group or join by a
BigInteger or sort by BigDecimal. All DBMS support this types by default.
I'm not from the industry but there is a need for that I think.
On 18.11.2015 18:21, Stephan Ewen wrote:
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
