[SQOOP-1054] New feature to support importing MySQL table via binary type splitter

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.3
• Component/s: connectors/mysql, tools

Environment

$uname -a
Linux bl1253.cn.alcatel-lucent.com 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:41:30 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: wenzhi wang
• Created: 21/May/13 02:03
• Updated: 24/Jul/13 07:27

Description

I'm using (Sqoop 1.4.3 + Hadoop 1.0.4) handle data of our product, which employs MySQL 5.1.6 and most tables are defined with primary key on binary columns. Sqoop does not support binary type column as splitter now, and I have to import tables by restricting mapper number to 1 which lowers the performance. So, I open this feature to request Sqoop support binary type splitter.