# pinot-dev
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Dan DC
10/20/2021, 6:06 PMso there is an issue already, raised by @User https://github.com/apache/pinot/issues/6209 - k
Kishore G
10/20/2021, 6:07 PMDate is done. - k
Kishore G
10/20/2021, 6:07 PM@User can you update the issue👌 1 - d
Dan DC
10/20/2021, 6:08 PMif BigInteger can be added to the list that'd be great! - k
Kishore G
10/20/2021, 6:11 PMyes, its the same concept under the hood - k
Kishore G
10/20/2021, 6:12 PMDan, you need this because of querying through presto/trino? - d
Dan DC
10/20/2021, 6:17 PMthat's part of it, the main issue is actually that I have to deal with big high-precision amounts and I would rather avoid doing conversions during calculations - d
Dan DC
10/20/2021, 6:20 PMI think in trino a string can be easily converted to decimal if in pinot I use toBigDecimal in the column - k
Kishore G
10/20/2021, 6:28 PMGot it - d
Dan DC
10/22/2021, 3:45 PM@User @User any chances I can pick the Big Decimal data type task? I don't completely know what it takes to add a new data type but it's kind of urgent for me so I'll be happy to look into it - k
Kishore G
10/22/2021, 4:05 PMabsolutely, happy to guide you - d
Dan DC
10/22/2021, 4:20 PMThank you, I may start looking into this later today then. I'll ping you with any question I may have👍 1 - d
Dan DC
10/25/2021, 7:57 PMI've made some progress with the new big decimal type. It seems this will be a large change and I've got questions with regards serialisation and backwards compatibility. For example, most aggregations rely on double primitives, this should be configurable via some table property perhaps - d
Dan DC
10/25/2021, 8:09 PMFor serialisation I need to make sure the dictionary understands that bigdecimal is a variable length type, this seems to be detected by the indexer but I've not seen where I specify that (if I have to specify that at all) - a
Alexander Vivas
10/31/2021, 10:19 AMGood morning guys, I'm in the middle of writing a scala client using your java client as the base but I'm confused with something I just saw and don't know why is coded like that - a
Alexander Vivas
10/31/2021, 10:19 AMFor your reference, I'm talking about this one: https://github.com/apache/pinot/blob/master/pinot-clients/pinot-java-client - a
Alexander Vivas
10/31/2021, 10:20 AMAnd what I don't understand is this method: https://github.com/apache/pinot/blob/5becf5b81c996a6be39a22fd99aacfa7f1b3e1ac/pino[…]src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/client/ResultTableResultSet.java - a
Alexander Vivas
10/31/2021, 10:20 AMWhy do you do this if the second line overrides what the first line does? - a
Alexander Vivas
10/31/2021, 10:21 AMScreenshot 2021-10-31 at 11.21.25.png - a
Alexander Vivas
10/31/2021, 10:22 AMI'd get it if that was some sort of appending operation but it is not - x
Xiang Fu
10/31/2021, 6:43 PMI think it’s a bug that textTable doesn’t hold the column data types. We should fix that - x
Xiang Fu
10/31/2021, 6:43 PMThanks for pointing this out @User - k
Kishore G
10/31/2021, 7:03 PMcan you please file an issue - a
Alexander Vivas
11/01/2021, 9:19 AMSure, in a moment - a
Alexander Vivas
11/01/2021, 9:30 AM - a
Atri Sharma
11/03/2021, 3:21 PMWhat's the process to update docs for new features? - k
Kishore G
11/03/2021, 3:21 PMGitBook - a
Atri Sharma
11/03/2021, 3:23 PMPlease point me to the link and I will get it done right away - r
Rong R
11/03/2021, 10:08 PMtip of master seems broken, looking into it unless someone else already on it