Yes, that's a doc bug. Should say 38.  Thanks,

James

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Kyle Buzsaki <[email protected]> wrote:
> The documentation for the DECIMAL type on the phoenix docs here:
>
> http://phoenix.apache.org/language/datatypes.html#decimal_type
>
> says that the maximum number of digits is 18. This does not match the
> PDataType.MAX_PRECISION constant of 38. Furthermore, I have tested this by
> sending by sending a high precision BigDecimal on a round trip through
> DECIMAL.toBytes() and then DECIMAL.toObject(), and from what I can tell it
> supports a precision of up to 38 digits. My suspicion then is that the
> documentation is wrong and the 18 should be 38. Can someone confirm?
>
> --Kyle Buzsaki

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