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Thejas M Nair commented on PIG-1314: ------------------------------------ Zhijie, I have added comments on your latest patch in https://reviews.apache.org/r/5414/. Yes, lets focus on test cases now, so that we can get an initial version committed. > 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, PIG-1314-3.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 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira