Hi, Jeff Yuan: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Jeff Yuan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am new to the pig community, and have a couple of questions > regarding loader/storers. Because I am writing code that closely > couples with Pig, I thought I'd ask on the dev mailing list, but > please let me know if this is more appropriate for the user list. > > 1) Is there a way to set the default pig loader as something other > than PigStorage via configuration? What I mean is, by default if a > loader is not specified, PigStorage is assumed. Can I change things so > that if no loader is specified in the load statement, another custom > loader is used? > I am not sure if there is another way, but you can edit " pig.load.default.statements=" in pig.properties file. So in your Pig script you don't have to write load statement, but Pig will always load it for you (of course with the loader you specified) > > 2) Is there a way to output the entire query result to stdout? Is the > easiest way to do so by writing a custom storer that doesn't actually > store to a file but instead just output to stdout? > can you try 'DUMP' ? > > If no specific answer is available, advice on where in the pig code I > should look to discover answers for myself would also be highly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jeff > Johnny
