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[jira] Updated: (AVRO-10) add fixed-size type

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-10?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Doug Cutting updated AVRO-10:
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    Status: Patch Available  (was: In Progress)

> add fixed-size type
> -------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-10
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-10
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: spec
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>            Assignee: Doug Cutting
>         Attachments: AVRO-10.patch, qdox-1.10-20090420.183942-5.jar
>
>
> Avro should support an opaque binary type whose size in bytes is specified in the schema.  This would permit, e.g., single-byte values, short values, and efficient representations for checksums pseudo-random values such as MD5 and SHA, dates, etc.

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