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Thomas Friedrich commented on HIVE-10616:
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The CLI has no issue, that's why I opened the defect against the
Serializers/Deserializers component.
We are using the TypeInfoUtils class (package
org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.typeinfo) in one of our own serdes to parse the
datatype and call the static method getTypeInfoFromTypeString which should
treat the decimal data type according to the spec.
However, if you pass in a string for the decimal type with just one argument,
the precision is always 10 and the scale is 0 because the parseType method
doesn't handle the one argument decimal type.
You can run a simple test like this:
TypeInfo t = TypeInfoUtils.getTypeInfoFromTypeString("decimal(20)");
DecimalTypeInfo dti = (DecimalTypeInfo)t;
System.out.println(dti.getPrecision()); // prints 10
System.out.println(dti.getScale()); // prints 0
> TypeInfoUtils doesn't handle DECIMAL with just precision specified
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> Key: HIVE-10616
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10616
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Serializers/Deserializers
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Thomas Friedrich
> Assignee: Thomas Friedrich
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HIVE-10616.1.patch
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> The parseType method in TypeInfoUtils doesn't handle decimal types with just
> precision specified although that's a valid type definition.
> As a result, TypeInfoUtils.getTypeInfoFromTypeString will always return
> decimal(10,0) for any decimal(<precision>) string.
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