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Navis commented on HIVE-2903:
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It would be better to be handled in hbase rather then hive, IMHO. Before that,
I've separated the code by option 'lbinary' ('signedbinary' conflicts with
'string' which starts with 's').
> Numeric binary type keys are not compared properly
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>
> Key: HIVE-2903
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2903
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HBase Handler
> Reporter: Navis
> Assignee: Navis
> Attachments: HIVE-2903.D2481.1.patch, HIVE-2903.D2481.2.patch
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> In current binary format for numbers, minus values are always greater than
> plus values, for example.
> {code}
> System.our.println(Bytes.compareTo(Bytes.toBytes(-100), Bytes.toBytes(100)));
> // 255
> {code}
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