On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Martin Kleppmann <[email protected]>wrote:

> AvroJob does not perform schema evolution, so the schema you provide
> to AvroJob.setInputSchema has to be the exact same schema with which
> your input files to the mappers are encoded.
>

Actually the schema you provide is used as the "reader" schema and need not
exactly match the schema used to write the data.  The schema used when
writing is stored in the data files.

Doug

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