Hi, What type refers to an Java Bigint or C long long? Or is there any other type in Avro that maps a 64 bit unsigned int?
I unfortunately could only find smaller types in the docs: Primitive Types The set of primitive type names is: * string: unicode character sequence * bytes: sequence of 8-bit bytes * int: 32-bit signed integer * long: 64-bit signed integer * float: single precision (32-bit) IEEE 754 floating-point number * double: double precision (64-bit) IEEE 754 floating-point number * boolean: a binary value * null: no value Anyway in the encoding section theres some 64bit unsigned. Can I use them somehow by a type? Work around might be to use the 52 significant bits of a double, but seems like a hack and of course loosing some more number space compared to uint64. I'd like to get around any other self-encoding hacks as I'd like to also use Hadoop/PIG/HIVE on top on AVRO, so would like to keep functionality on numbers if possible. Thanks, Dennis
