[teiid-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (TEIID-1600) Exact numerical literal parsing

Mon May 23 13:31:00 EDT 2011

Exact numerical literal parsing
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                 Key: TEIID-1600
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-1600
             Project: Teiid
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Query Engine
            Reporter: Steven Hawkins
            Assignee: Steven Hawkins
             Fix For: 8.0

Teiid diverges from the SQL spec by parsing numerical expressions of the form <integral value>.<integral value> as doubles rather than as an exact numeric type (which for us would be BigDecimal).  I believe this was originally done to match Java parsing semantics and potentially to avoid performance overhead of using BigBecimal.  However this can lead to a loss of precision that is not expected by ANSI SQL.

inexact numeric values entered in scientific notation would not be affected by this change.  They would still be parsed as doubles.

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