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Anoop Sam John commented on HBASE-8593:
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CopyTable!!! why u think a type conversion needed while copying whole/part of
data from one table to another? Do u have some concrete usecase?
> Type support for ImportTSV
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> Key: HBASE-8593
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8593
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: mapreduce
> Reporter: Anoop Sam John
> Fix For: 0.95.2
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> Now the ImportTSV tool treats all the table column to be of type String. It
> converts the input data into bytes considering its type to be String. Some
> times user will need a type of say int/float to get added to table by using
> this tool.
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