Thank you!
r7raul1...@163.com From: Gopal Vijayaraghavan Date: 2015-05-04 16:10 To: user CC: r7raul1...@163.com Subject: Re: join on different data type > If A.col1 is of DOUBLE type, > but B.col2 is of BIGINT, The automatic conversion is not acceptable according to the java language spec (section 5.1.2) https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-5.html#jls-5.1.2 Also to be noted here is that in general, that even if you cast, you might be casting the wrong way around. Because joins on double columns will give incorrect (rather unintended, but IEEE 754 correct) results when comparing byte serialized representations - because of the nearly-equal property epsilon. Easiest way to demonstrate this is to try the simplest off-by-epsilon case (say, in python) >>> import sys >>> 0.1 + 0.2 0.30000000000000004 >>> 0.1 + 0.2 > 0.3 True >>> >>> ((0.1+0.2) - 0.3) < sys.float_info.epsilon True So if the RHS produced ETL values by sum() and the LHS was produced by parsing log text, the JOIN will output zero rows. If you want to do equijoins like that, the only valid case is to cast both to fixed precision bigints (say, convert all dollars to cents, by *100), not both to double. Cheers, Gopal
