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Created on: 23/Oct/18 04:19
Start Date: 23/Oct/18 04:19
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Work Description: kennknowles commented on issue #6787: [BEAM-5829]
Convert tests to use DECIMAL for price field
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/6787#issuecomment-432085529
R: @reuvenlax
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> SQL should probably not support GROUP BY or set operations on floating point
> numbers
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> Key: BEAM-5829
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-5829
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: dsl-sql
> Reporter: Kenneth Knowles
> Assignee: Kenneth Knowles
> Priority: Critical
> Time Spent: 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> These are known to be super unreliable on most SQL engines, and generally
> indicate a programming error. Floating points numbers are intended as
> stand-ins for real numbers, for which equality (hence grouping and set
> operations) are undecidable. And our build is broken because of it.
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