[SQOOP-428] AvroOutputFormat doesn't support compression even though documentation claims it does

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1-incubating
• Component/s: docs
• Labels: avro document
• Assignee: Lars Francke
• Reporter: Lars Francke
• Created: 18/Jan/12 19:58
• Updated: 04/Feb/12 22:03
• Resolved: 04/Feb/12 21:41

Description

The documentation claims that Avro files can be compressed as well:

By default, data is not compressed. You can compress your data by using the deflate (gzip) algorithm with the -z or --compress argument, or specify any Hadoop compression codec using the --compression-codec argument. This applies to SequenceFile, text, and Avro files.

This is not true as the AvroOutputFormat currently doesn't support compression.