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Re: How do I use DB instead of file, and is there a stand-alone (no ahdoop) mode?

Benjamin Reed
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:15:49 -0700

PIG-55, which may be the patch you are talking about, was committed last week. 
It allows a LoadFunc to validate the filename, and therefore use the filename 
as a DB spec or ignore it completely. Does PIG-55 satisfy your requirements?

ben

On Sunday 06 April 2008 18:46:02 Spencer Proffit wrote:
> Pig comes very close to meeting my needs, however I need to be able to
> load from DB.  I noticed in Jira there was a patch to remove
> dependency on file names from the loader.  I'd also like it to scale
> down so I can test and dev without hadoop.  Is that possible?  I'm
> also thinking about using it with Amazon s3 (disclosure: I work for
> Amazon).  If these changes are within the scope of where pig wants to
> go (it eats everything, right), I'd be happy to work on the changes
> myself.
>
> Spencer