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Louis Kuang commented on CALCITE-4841:
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Maybe I am missing the registration somewhere. I thought the following happen:

CsvSchemaFactory --> CsvSchema --> CsvTable --> getRowType --> 
CsvEnumerator.deduceRowType --> CsvFieldType.toType(typeFactory) --> 
RelDataTypeFactoryImpl.createJavaType(BigDecimal.class) --> 
JavaType(BigDecimal.class) --> getSqlTypeName --> 
JavaToSqlTypeConversionRules.lookup(BigDecimal.class) --> SqlTypeName.DECIMAL

and similarly for the FileFieldType. This seems enough for `!describe FooTable` 
to print the column type as `DECIMAL`

It's true that I have not registered BigDecimal.class in 
RelDataTypeFactorImpl#CLASS_FAMILIES though. Is there a commit that I can use 
to reference adding a new type to Calcite?

> Support numeric column type in CSV and File adapter
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CALCITE-4841
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-4841
>             Project: Calcite
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: csv-adapter, file-adapter
>            Reporter: Louis Kuang
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>          Time Spent: 40m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> Currently, the csv adapter does not support the numeric column type (see 
> supported types in 
> [CsvFieldType|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/4bc916619fd286b2c0cc4d5c653c96a68801d74e/file/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/adapter/file/CsvFieldType.java#L35].
>  Any type that is not supported will be interpreted by the 
> [CsvEnumerator|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/master/file/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/adapter/file/CsvEnumerator.java]
>  as string.
> When dealing with decimal numbers, the currently most appropriate type is 
> `double`. However, this is not accurate enough for financial data. This 
> feature request proposes adding a `numeric` column type that will be 
> implemented by the Java `BigDecimal` type (and by conversion in 
> [JavaToSqlTypeConversionRules|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/4bc916619fd286b2c0cc4d5c653c96a68801d74e/core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/sql/type/JavaToSqlTypeConversionRules.java#L74]
>  be represented as a `Decimal` SQL type). This allow financial data to be 
> represented and computed more accurately (`BigDecimal` has higher precision 
> than `double`).
> Please see sample implementation in PR.



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