Ah, support as an efficient key types is a fair argument, yes! On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Timo Walther <twal...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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 >>> >>> >
