Re: Add BigDecimal and BigInteger as types

Ah, support as an efficient key types is a fair argument, yes! On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Timo Walther wrote: > I could image that some applications also want to group or join by a > BigInteger or sort by BigDecimal. All DBMS support this types by default. > I'm not

Re: Add BigDecimal and BigInteger as types

I could image that some applications also want to group or join by a BigInteger or sort by BigDecimal. All DBMS support this types by default. I'm not from the industry but there is a need for that I think. On 18.11.2015 18:21, Stephan Ewen wrote: I agree that they are important. They are

Add BigDecimal and BigInteger as types

Hey everyone, I'm not sure if we already had a discussion about it but as we are currently adding new types like the Either type, I would like to discuss it again. I think especially for business or scientific applications it makes sense to support the BigInteger and BigDecimal types

Re: Add BigDecimal and BigInteger as types

I agree that they are important. They are currently generic types and handled by Kryo, which has (AFAIK) proper serializers for them. Are there more benefits of native support (other than more compact serialization) that you are thinking of? On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Timo Walther