Sorry, I misunderstood what you were trying to generate. Perhaps the following will come closer:

t1 = load table1 as id, listOfId; -- <1, <2,3,4>>
t2 = load table2 as id, f1; -- <2,a>,<3,b>,<4,c>
a = foreach t1 generate id, flatten(listOfId); -- <1,2>,<1,3>,<1,4>
b = join a by $0, t2 by id; -- <2,1,2,2,a>,<3,1,3,3,b>,<4,1,4,4,c>
c = group b by $1; -- <1,{<2,1,2,2,a>,<3,1,3,3,b>,<4,1,4,4,c>}>
d = foreach d generate group, c.b::$4; -- <1, {<a>,<b>,<c>}>

where <> represents a tuple and {} a bag.

I'm not 100% sure of the syntax c.b::$4 for d, you may have to fiddle with that 
to get it right.

Alan.




Joydeep Sen Sarma wrote:
Will it?

Trying an example:

t1 = {<1, <2, 3, 4>>}
t2 = {<2, "alpha">,<3,"beta">,<4,"gamma">}

desired outcome c = {<1, <"alpha", "beta", "gamma">} /* or alternatively
*/
                c = {<1, <<2,"alpha">,<3,"beta">,<4,"gamma">>>}

but as proposed (I hope I am reading the pig document correctly):

t1a = {<2,3,4>}
b = {<2, 2, "alpha">}

// no point going further - this doesn't seem to be doing what I want ..


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Gates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: looking for some help with pig syntax

I think the following will do what you want.

t1 = load table1 as id, listOfId;
t2 = load table2 as id, f1;
t1a = foreach t1 generate flatten(listOfId); -- flattens the lisOfId into a set of ids
b = join t1a by $0, t2 by id; -- join the two together.
c = foreach b generate t2.id, t2.f1; -- project just the ids and f1
entries.

Alan.

Joydeep Sen Sarma wrote:
Specifically, how can we express this query:

Table1 contains: id, (list of ids)

Table2 contains: id, f1

Where the Table1:list is a variable length list of foreign key (id)
into
Table2.

We would like to join every element of Table1:list with corresponding
Table2:id. Ie. The final output should of the form:

Table3 contains: id, (list of f1)

Couldn't quite figure out how to do this - does Pig Latin support
nested
foreach loops? If there's a more appropriate mailing list - please
re-direct,

Thanks,

Joydeep


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