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Tom White commented on AVRO-991:
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+1 for user-specified sync markers. It would be sufficient to be able to say 
"use the default sync marker" for my use case (checking that an Avro data file 
generated from a MapReduce program is as expected).

> However, two files with the same logical content can differ in other ways 
> too: User provided metadata, different block sizes, compression codecs, etc.

Right, but these can all be set by the user - so being able to control the sync 
marker would make everything deterministic.
                
> Allow combining multiple Avro files within a stream. (no files on disk)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-991
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-991
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.1
>            Reporter: Frank Grimes
>
> It would be nice to be able to do as follows:
>   cat file1.avro file2.avro | java -jar avro-tools.jar streamcombine > 
> combined-file.avro
> or similarly
>   
>   hadoop dfs -cat hdfs://hadoop/file1.avro hdfs://hadoop/file2.avro | java 
> -jar avro-tools.jar streamcombine | hdfs -put - 
> hdfs://hadoop/combined-file.avro
> See the following thread for details: 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/avro-user/201201.mbox/%[email protected]%3e

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