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Thejas M Nair commented on PIG-1314:
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bq. Or we temporally set aside the performance issue right now, and move
forward to make timezone serialization work by simply serializing the timezone
id string.
We can add features later, but dropping features later won't be good. In my
opinion, the support for long timezone name is not going to be needed by most
people. I think we can support it only for creating a DateTime field, but say
that pig will not preserve the long name. Pig will only retain hours+minute
offset (no seconds and milliseconds!). The hour+min offset form is portable and
more likely to be supported by other serialization formats.
> Add DateTime Support to Pig
> ---------------------------
>
> Key: PIG-1314
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1314
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: data
> Affects Versions: 0.7.0
> Reporter: Russell Jurney
> Assignee: Zhijie Shen
> Labels: gsoc2012
> Attachments: PIG-1314-1.patch, PIG-1314-2.patch, joda_vs_builtin.zip
>
> Original Estimate: 672h
> Remaining Estimate: 672h
>
> Hadoop/Pig are primarily used to parse log data, and most logs have a
> timestamp component. Therefore Pig should support dates as a primitive.
> Can someone familiar with adding types to pig comment on how hard this is?
> We're looking at doing this, rather than use UDFs. Is this a patch that
> would be accepted?
> This is a candidate project for Google summer of code 2012. More information
> about the program can be found at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PIG/GSoc2012
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