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Rohini Palaniswamy updated PIG-4579:
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Fix Version/s: (was: 0.17.0)
0.18.0
> casting of primitive datetime data type should work
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> Key: PIG-4579
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4579
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Michael Howard
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.18.0
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> datetime is a primitive data type.
> One should be able to cast a chararray or a long into a datetime.
> currently, this does not work.
> casting from a chararray should call the built-in UDF ToDateISO(chararray)
> casting from a long should call the built-in UDF ToDate(long)
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