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Olga Natkovich commented on PIG-303:
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I reviewed the patch.
My feedback is that I don't think we need to support cast to bytearray. I can
think of any reasonable use cases for it and makes a more common case of
writing custom load function more complex.
> POCast does not cast chararray to bytearray
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> Key: PIG-303
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-303
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: types_branch
> Reporter: Santhosh Srinivasan
> Assignee: Santhosh Srinivasan
> Fix For: types_branch
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> Attachments: pig_type_to_bytearray.patch
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> When chararray is cast to bytearray, the query execution fails due to
> ClassCastException. The problem is inside the getNext(DataByteArray) code in
> POCast.
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