@Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    props.setProperty(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMNS, "TD_DECIMAL");
    props.setProperty(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMN_TYPES, "decimal(9,5)");

    serde.initialize(null, props, props);
  }
Test the data type DECIMAL for Teradata binary format.
serde/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/teradata/TestTeradataBinarySerdeForDecimal.java