One thing to be aware of when accessing the pig.script option is that AFAIK there's a limit to how large the script can be, after which the rest would be truncated.
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Prashant Kommireddi <[email protected]>wrote: > I completely agree that's an option. But IMHO being able to do that upfront > would be a nice feature, adding cron is just an additional process we could > avoid if possible. > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can write a nightly cron that runs the JobHistoryLoader job and > > stores parsed scripts to hdfs... > > > > D > > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Prashant Kommireddi <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > I think that would be more of a post-process vs having Pig write the > same > > > to a HDFS location. That would avoid having to parse it from job.xml. > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Dai <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> One existing solution is "pig.script" entry inside job.xml, it is the > > >> serialized Pig script. JobHistoryLoader can load job.xml files and > grab > > >> those entries. Does that solve your problem? > > >> > > >> Daniel > > >> > > >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Prashant Kommireddi < > > [email protected] > > >> >wrote: > > >> > > >> > Hi All, > > >> > > > >> > What do you guys think about adding a feature to be able to persist > > the > > >> > script (file or cache in case of grunt) on HDFS or locally based on > an > > >> > admin setting (pig.properties). This will help infrastructure/ops > > teams > > >> > analyze nature of Pig scripts and be able to make certain decisions > > based > > >> > on it (optimizing data storage based on access patterns etc). This > is > > >> > actually something we want to do but the challenge is there is no > > central > > >> > place where we can track user scripts. > > >> > > > >> > It could be a config param "pig.persist.script=/pig/". The script > > could > > >> be > > >> > stored with a configurable name -> ${mapred.job.name}+${user.name > > >> > }+timestamp" > > >> > either on HDFS or local based on the configuration setting. > > >> > > > >> > Thanks, > > >> > Prashant > > >> > > > >> > > > -- *Note that I'm no longer using my Yahoo! email address. Please email me at [email protected] going forward.*
