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Yiping Han commented on PIG-796: -------------------------------- I have the same idea that Alan proposed. I agree the common case is most values are of the same type. Caching the type and change the cached type only when catch the ClassCastException would be the most efficient way. > support conversion from numeric types to chararray > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-796 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-796 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.2.0 > Reporter: Olga Natkovich > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.