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Thejas M Nair commented on PIG-1429:
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Zhijie,
I doubt if there are going to be use cases where users actually want a string
like 'xyz' to be converted to false. I think it is more likely to happen
because of user error such as applying the cast on a wrong column. Converting
it to null and incrementing the conversion error counter will help the user
find such an error sooner.
I don't think the consistency with numeric conversion is as important because
the logic for numeric conversion anyway different.
> Add Boolean Data Type to Pig
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>
> Key: PIG-1429
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1429
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: data
> Affects Versions: 0.7.0
> Reporter: Russell Jurney
> Assignee: Zhijie Shen
> Labels: boolean, gsoc2011, pig, type
> Attachments: PIG-1429_1.patch, PIG-1429_2.patch, working_boolean.patch
>
> Original Estimate: 8h
> Remaining Estimate: 8h
>
> Pig needs a Boolean data type. Pig-1097 is dependent on doing this.
> I volunteer. Is there anything beyond the work in src/org/apache/pig/data/
> plus unit tests to make this work?
> This is a candidate project for Google summer of code 2011. More information
> about the program can be found at http://wiki.apache.org/pig/GSoc2011
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