From bc144113f14d448bd035b8fc8b6282022700dd13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cliff Engle <cliffengle@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:20:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix TextConverter inefficiency

---
 .../primitive/PrimitiveObjectInspectorConverter.java        | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/primitive/PrimitiveObjectInspectorConverter.java b/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/primitive/PrimitiveObjectInspectorConverter.java
index 9d8ab9a5290b..fea46c66ffb3 100644
--- a/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/primitive/PrimitiveObjectInspectorConverter.java
+++ b/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/primitive/PrimitiveObjectInspectorConverter.java
@@ -289,7 +289,11 @@ public Text convert(Object input) {
         t.set(String.valueOf(((DoubleObjectInspector) inputOI).get(input)));
         return t;
       case STRING:
-        t.set(((StringObjectInspector) inputOI).getPrimitiveJavaObject(input));
+	if (inputOI.preferWritable()) {
+	  t.set(((StringObjectInspector) inputOI).getPrimitiveWritableObject(input));
+	} else {
+	  t.set(((StringObjectInspector) inputOI).getPrimitiveJavaObject(input));
+	}
         return t;
       default:
         throw new RuntimeException("Hive 2 Internal error: type = " + inputOI.getTypeName());