How to clear data from GenericRecord

[David Rosenstrauch]

There doesn't seem to be any method call available in the API for 
GenericRecord to completely erase all of its data so that it can be reused.

I'm planning to use an Avro GenericRecord (GenericData.Record) inside a 
Hadoop Reducer, and it would be much better from a memory usage 
perspective if I could just clear the record's contents at the beginning 
of every reduce() call, rather than having to instantiate a new one for 
each call.

Any way to make this happen?  (And if no, anyone think this is something 
important enough that I should file a bug report on this?)

Thanks,

DR