This has worked for me: jobconf.getInt( "mapred.task.partition", 0); in the reducer.
________________________________ From: abc xyz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 9:56:20 AM Subject: getting the partition number in a reducer to which a key-value pair belongs Hello everyone, when i am processing a given key-{set of values} pair in reducer function, how can I get the partition number to which this key-{set of values} belong to? How is it possible to get this partition number without adding extra information about the partition number with each key-value pair during partitioning? Cheers
