AVRO-2019: Improve documentation for logical type annotation (apache#…

…1413) This is the 2017 patch from Andrew Rosca, documenting using @logicaltype to allow arbitrary logical types in IDL.
RanbirK · Dec 9, 2021 · d206242 · d206242
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@@ -252,6 +252,14 @@ record Job {
   time_ms submitTime;
   timestamp_ms finishTime;
   decimal(9,2) finishRatio;
+}
+        </source>
+        <p>Logical types can also be specified via an annotation, which is useful for logical types for which a keyword does not exist:</p>
+        <source>
+record Job {
+  string jobid;
+  @logicalType("timestamp-micros")
+  long finishTime;
 }
         </source>
       </section>