[Bug 1136] pmlogreduce type conversion conflicts with naive multi-archive same-type assertion

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Comment # 3 on bug 1136 from Ken McDonell

(a) yes, the nirvana solution for pmlogreduce would be to convert counter,bytes
-> instant,bytes/sec

(b) we'd need to widen _every_ 64-bit counter for this to be a viable option,
and that just does not feel right

(c) widening was added to pmlogreduce because the longer the time interval that
the archive spans the higher the probability of a counter wrap, and in the
absence of (a) the simplest way to deal with this is to expand 32-bit counters
to 64-bit counters

I would prefer to fix this properly, not Band-Aid the "32-bit counters being
widened to 64-bit counters thanks to pmlogreduce" problem.

Needs some more soak-n-think time at my end ...

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