ClickHouse / ClickHouse/clickhouse-rs
Support BFloat16 data type (24.11)
Open
1.0 blocker
client feature parity
enhancement
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 559
- Forks
- 172
- Avg merge
- 1d 19h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
Description
See https://clickhouse.com/docs/sql-reference/data-types/float#bfloat16
Perhaps via https://crates.io/crates/half
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the ClickHouse BFloat16 data-type documentation and inspect the half crate linked in the issue. Determine the client surfaces that must represent and encode or decode this type, then add coverage for the supported behavior. Done means the client can handle ClickHouse BFloat16 data consistently.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- database
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100