Ingesting decimal in hive table of Avro Serde - hive

Question

I am trying to check whether i can change the precision and scale of decimal field in hive with Avro Serde.So I have writtenbelow code.
create database test_avro;
use test_avro_table;
create external table test_table(
name string,
salary decimal(17,2),
country string
)
row format delimited
fields terminated by ","
STORED AS textfile;
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/appsdesdssu/data/CACS_POC/data/' INTO TABLE
test_table;
create external table test_table_avro
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe'
STORED AS INPUTFORMAT
'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat'
OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat'
tblproperties ('avro.schema.literal'='{
"name": "my_record",
"type": "record",
"fields": [
{"name":"name", "type":"string"},
{"name":"salary","type": "bytes","logicalType": "decimal","precision":
17,"scale": 2},
{"name":"country", "type":"string"}
]}');
insert overwrite table test_table_avro select * from test_table;
Here, I am getting error saying
FAILED: UDFArgumentException Only string, char, varchar or binary data can be cast into binary data types.
Data file:
steve,976475632987465.257,USA
rogers,349643905318384.137,mexico
groot,534563663653653.896,titan
If i am missing anything here than please let me know.

Answer 1

Hive did not support decimal to Binary version till now. So we have to work around by first converting it to string and than binary.So, below lines
insert overwrite table test_table_avro select * from test_table;
needs change to
insert overwrite table test_table_avro select name,cast(cast(salary as string) as binary),country from test_table;