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Alan Gates commented on PIG-1314: --------------------------------- I think durations would be useful, and others have mentioned to me that they'd like to have them. As you note, this might be a good phase 2 addition, as getting datetime in alone will be a fair chunk of work. > 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 > Fix For: 0.8.0 > > 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 message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.