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(Updated Sept. 28, 2012, 8:44 p.m.)


Review request for pig and Santhosh Srinivasan.


Changes
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After discussing with Santhosh offline, I made changes to type merging as 
follows:
1) int + float/double = float/double
2) long + float/double = float/double

Although this may result in loss of precision, I decided to do so because:
1) This is consistent with how Pig merges numeric types.
2) Converting numeric types to strings (e.g. int + float/double = string) will 
result in loss of type information, which seems more significant than loss of 
precision particularly when data producers are different from data consumers.


Description
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Add support for multiple avro schemas to AvroStorage. This patch is based on 
Stan Rosenberg's original work.

Please see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2579 for details


This addresses bug PIG-2579.
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2579


Diffs (updated)
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contrib/piggybank/java/src/main/java/org/apache/pig/piggybank/storage/avro/AvroStorage.java
 d7a004f 
  
contrib/piggybank/java/src/main/java/org/apache/pig/piggybank/storage/avro/AvroStorageUtils.java
 84280af 
  
contrib/piggybank/java/src/main/java/org/apache/pig/piggybank/storage/avro/PigAvroInputFormat.java
 fb5cc25 
  
contrib/piggybank/java/src/main/java/org/apache/pig/piggybank/storage/avro/PigAvroRecordReader.java
 75057f9 
  
contrib/piggybank/java/src/test/java/org/apache/pig/piggybank/test/storage/avro/TestAvroStorage.java
 1f6e581 
  
contrib/piggybank/java/src/test/java/org/apache/pig/piggybank/test/storage/avro/TestAvroStorageUtils.java
 0761d5a 

Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/6884/diff/


Testing
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New unit tests are added:
- TestAvroStorageUtils.testMergeSchema
- TestAvroStorage.testMultipleSchemas1,2


Thanks,

Cheolsoo Park

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