pat chan created PIG-3349:
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Summary: Casting datetime objects support or not?
Key: PIG-3349
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3349
Project: Pig
Issue Type: Bug
Components: data
Affects Versions: 0.11.1
Reporter: pat chan
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 0.11.1
Currently you can't cast a datetimeobject into a chararray:
grunt> B = foreach A generate (chararray)a; dump B;
2013-06-05 15:29:01,372 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR
1052:
<line 8, column 24> Cannot cast datetime to chararray
Details at logfile: /Users/patc/projects/pig-0.11.1/pig_1370471270879.log
Was this an oversight? The documented casting matrix does not show the datetime
object so I'm not sure if the current behavior is correct or not.
My recommendation would be to support casting to and from strings. Casting from
a string would behave exactly like loading a datetime. Casting to a string
would be exactly the format you get when you dump a datetime.
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