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Version: Stable-3.1

DECIMAL

Description​

DECIMAL(P[,S])

High-precision fixed-point value. P stands for the total number of significant numbers (precision). S stands for the maximum number of decimal points (scale).

If P is omitted, the default is 10. If S is omitted, the default is 0.

  • Decimal V2

    The range of P is [1,27] and the range of S is [0,9]. P must be greater than or equal to the value of S. The default value of S is 0.

  • Fast Decimal (Decimal V3)

    The range of P is [1,38] and the range of S is [0, P]. The default value of S is 0. Fast Decimal provides a higher precision.

    Major optimizations:

    ​1. Fast Decimal uses variable-width integers to express decimals. For example, it uses 64-bit integers to express decimals whose precision is less than or equal to 18. Whereas, Decimal V2 uses 128-bit integers uniformly for all decimals. Arithmetic operations and conversion operations on 64-bit processors use fewer instructions, which greatly improves performance.

    ​2. Compared with Decimal V2, Fast Decimal made significant optimizations in some algorithms, especially in multiplication, which improves performance by about 4 times.

Fast Decimal is controlled by the FE dynamic parameter enable_decimal_v3, which is true by default.

From v3.1 onwards, StarRocks supports Fast Decimal entries in ARRAY, MAP, and STRUCT.

Examples​

Define DECIMAL columns when creating a table.

CREATE TABLE decimalDemo (
    pk BIGINT(20) NOT NULL COMMENT "",
    account DECIMAL(20,10) COMMENT ""
) ENGINE=OLAP 
DUPLICATE KEY(pk)
COMMENT "OLAP"
DISTRIBUTED BY HASH(pk);

INSERT INTO decimalDemo VALUES
(1,3.141592656),
(2,21.638378),
(3,4873.6293048479);

SELECT * FROM decimalDemo;
+------+-----------------+
| pk   | account         |
+------+-----------------+
|    1 |    3.1415926560 |
|    3 | 4873.6293048479 |
|    2 |   21.6383780000 |
+------+-----------------+

keywords​

decimal, decimalv2, decimalv3, fast decimal