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The following page has been changed by OlgaN: http://wiki.apache.org/pig/PigStreamingFunctionalSpec ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ define X `stream.pl foo.gz` ship('stream.pl') cache('foo.gz') }}} + In the later release we might choose to decide what data to ship based on the sizes rather than requiring users to do so. + [[Anchor(Input/Output_Handling)]] === 3 Input/Output Handling === ==== 3.1 Data serialization/deserialization ==== + + Serialization/deserialization is needed respectively to convert data from tuples to a stream to pass to the streaming application and converts streaming application output back to tuples. By default, the data going into the streaming command and the one coming out is assumed to be tab delimited.