[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-2042) Can't reliably write decimal/BigDecimal values to file

2017-06-15 Thread Ryan Blue (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2042?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16050899#comment-16050899 ] Ryan Blue commented on AVRO-2042: - Here's a pretty good primer on Java's BigDecimal type:

[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-2042) Can't reliably write decimal/BigDecimal values to file

2017-06-15 Thread Fred Cohen (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2042?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16050764#comment-16050764 ] Fred Cohen commented on AVRO-2042: -- Ok. That does make some sense. It would help if it wer

[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-2042) Can't reliably write decimal/BigDecimal values to file

2017-06-15 Thread Ryan Blue (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2042?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16050746#comment-16050746 ] Ryan Blue commented on AVRO-2042: - The problem is that you're converting floats, which caus