Description
In data file, you should be able to include L or l for long (same as F or f for floats).
EXAMPLE
grunt> cat long.txt
4829090493980522200L
grunt> a = load 'long.txt' as f1:long;
grunt> dump a;
2009-02-06 20:18:04,373 [main] WARN org.apache.pig.builtin.PigStorage - Unable to interpret value [B@1d2fc36 in field being converted to long, caught NumberFormatException <For input string: "4829090493980522200L"> field discarded
2009-02-06 20:18:04,375 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - 100% complete!
2009-02-06 20:18:04,375 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.local.executionengine.LocalPigLauncher - Success!!
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