Daniel Weeks created PARQUET-2:
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             Summary: Adding Type Persuasion for Primitive Types
                 Key: PARQUET-2
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2
             Project: Parquet
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Daniel Weeks


Original from the old repo: Parquet/parquet-mr#410

These changes allow primitive types to be requested as different types than 
what is stored in the file format using a flag to turn off strict type checking 
(default is on). Types are cast to the requested type where possible and will 
suffer precision loss for casting where necessary (e.g. requesting a double as 
an int).

No performance penalty is imposed for using the type defined in the file type. 
A flag exists to

A 6x6 test case is provided to test conversion between the primitive types.



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