Dear Sqoop Developers, This week's Sqoop 2 meeting minutes are below and on the wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/Meeting+Minutes+-+June+27,+2012
Please RSVP to me (without replying to the list) if you would like to attend the next call, which will be next, next Wednesday (7/11) at 10am PDT. Thanks, Kathleen --- 6/27 Meeting Minutes: 1. Datatype support: we discussed the datatype support for Sqoop2. Among the points raised were the following: - Sqoop 1 datatypes are different for Java, Hive and Avro. Most of the time the connector does the datatype mapping. - For Sqoop 2, we would like to standardize on the datatype support so that all connectors can conform for consistency. - Some datatypes discussed today were: --- String, char: UTF 8 encoded --- Timestamp: Unix time representation to millisecond level --- Binary: byte array --- Numeric: byte, short, int, long, float, double, byte --- Null type 2. Intermediate data format - Jarcec has started out the intermediate format specification page on the Wiki (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/Sqoop2+Intermediate+representation). This was discussed at a high level in context of the various datatypes to be used. Follow-up: - Arvind to create a wiki page for datatypes and send it to dev list for discussion - Jarcec to further refine intermediate representation specification on the wiki Agenda for next meeting: - Follow up discussion regarding datatype support and intermediate representation
