I had a chat with a couple people last week about a feature request for Pig: in a "where" or "filter" clause, when loading an ORC file, to skip directly to the right offset instead of scanning the whole file.
I found this one to add loading and storing of ORC files: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3558 But is there a ticket for what I'm asking about? Seems like a good improvement, and I'd be happy to take it on if I can. Best Andrew
