pig/src/main/java/com/twitter/elephantbird/pig/load/LzoBaseLoadFunc.java
protected void incrCounter(String group, String counter, long incr) {
    counterHelper_.incrCounter(group, counter, incr);
  }
protected void incrCounter(String group, String counter, long incr) {
    counterHelper_.incrCounter(group, counter, incr);
  }
A convenience function for working with Hadoop counter objects from load functions.  The Hadoop
reporter object isn't always set up at first, so this class provides brief buffering to ensure
that counters are always recorded.