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Alejandro Abdelnur commented on MAPREDUCE-3310:
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If Tez is reusing all Hadoop MR task impl stuff the answer to it would yes,
otherwise the new method would not be used at all and it doesn't matter what it
returns.
> Custom grouping comparator cannot be set for Combiners
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>
> Key: MAPREDUCE-3310
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3310
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: client
> Affects Versions: 0.20.1
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Mathias Herberts
> Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Fix For: 1.3.0, 2.4.0
>
> Attachments: MAPREDUCE-3310-branch-1.patch,
> MAPREDUCE-3310-branch-1.patch, MAPREDUCE-3310-trunk.patch,
> MAPREDUCE-3310-trunk.patch, MAPREDUCE-3310-trunk.patch,
> MAPREDUCE-3310-trunk.patch
>
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> Combiners are often described as 'Reducers running on the Map side'.
> As Reducers, Combiners are fed <K,{V}>, where {V} is built by grouping values
> associated with the 'same' key.
> For Reducers, the comparator used for grouping values can be set
> independently of that used to sort the keys (using
> Job.setGroupingComparatorClass).
> Such a configuration is not possible for Combiners, meaning some things done
> in Reducers cannot be done in Combiners (such as secondary sort).
> It would be handy to have a Job.setCombinerGroupingComparatorClass method
> that would allow the setting of the grouping comparator used when applying a
> Combiner.
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