Github user JamesRTaylor commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/phoenix/pull/104#issuecomment-128863633
This feature would allow the tenant ID to be represented through more types
than just a VARCHAR. Some users may have tenants identified by an int or a long
instead of a string. The tenant ID would still be passed as the stringified
value, but the underlying table could use an int or a long as the column type.
As you mentioned, the system tables (SYSTEM.CATALOG and SYSTEM.SEQUENCE) would
need to continue to use the string representation. Every type can be converted
to a string, so this should be ok (pending testing).
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