I would like to have a discussion about a number of issues/questions related to support for the datetime datatype in pig.
main topics: * ToDate(chararray) accepts ISO-8601 'T' timestamps, but not JDBC space ' ' timestamps ... thereby make it incompatible with hive, impala & JDBC data sources * casting: (datetime)timestampString fails, even though datetime is listed as a primitive data type. * ToDate(chararray) throws an exception (rather than returning null) when given a mal-formed timestamp ... is this the desired behavior? It is unclear to me if this is the appropriate forum for a discussion of these topics ... or if I should have a side-discussion with an experienced core pig developer. Please advise. Michael
