add fixed-size type
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                 Key: AVRO-10
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-10
             Project: Avro
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: spec
            Reporter: Doug Cutting


Avro should support an opaque binary type whose size in bytes is specified in 
the schema.  This would permit, e.g., single-byte values, short values, and 
efficient representations for checksums pseudo-random values such as MD5 and 
SHA, dates, etc.

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