Hi John, Enabling decimal support does not make drill unstable if decimal types do not process. Problems may appear only when you trying to use decimal columns or some problematic decimal UDFs. Currently, we are actively working on completing decimal support and I suppose it will be available in 1.13 release.
2018-02-05 23:17 GMT+02:00 <john.humphr...@nomura.com>: > Hey, > > I’m on the MapR platform using Drill 1.10 at the minute. > > I have numerous parquet files that I need to query, but they have decimal > data types in them. > > I do not actually need to query the decimal columns in general, but drill > prevents me from querying the files as a whole even when I avoid those > columns. > > I know I can “enable” decimal support. So I guess my questions are: > > > 1. Will enabling decimal support actually make drill unstable, or > does it just slow some queries down? > > 2. Is there any risk in enabling the support as long as I avoid > querying the decimal columns? > > 3. Is decimal support being actively worked on and will it be > available soon-ish? > > Thanks, > > -John > > > PLEASE READ: This message is for the named person's use only. It may > contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No > confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If > you receive this message in error, please delete it and all copies from > your system, destroy any hard copies and notify the sender. You must not, > directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part > of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Nomura Holding > America Inc., Nomura Securities International, Inc, and their respective > subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications > through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the > individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender > is authorized to state the views of such entity. Unless otherwise stated, > any pricing information in this message is indicative only, is subject to > change and does not constitute an offer to deal at any price quoted. Any > reference to the terms of executed transactions should be treated as > preliminary only and subject to our formal written confirmation. > -- Kind regards, Volodymyr Vysotskyi
