In Hive, change webrequest's time_firstbyte from float to double
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	QChris
	Nov 5 2014, 2:42 PM

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time_firstbyte is currently a single-precision float.

Varnish exposes 9 decimal digits. So we should switch time_firstbyte
to double to be able to store all varnish-exposed digits even in corner cases.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		None	T75018 In Hive, change webrequest's time_firstbyte from float to double
		Resolved		None	T75095 Switching column type of time_firstbyte broke the table

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:49 AM

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gerritadmin wrote:

Change 171264 had a related patch set uploaded by QChris:
Change webrequest's time_firstbyte from float to double

gerritadmin wrote:

Change 171264 merged by Ottomata:
Change webrequest's time_firstbyte from float to double

float is the devil!!!

sorry, couldn't resist, they cost me three days of pain once in a Berlekamp error corrector.