Pig does not support storing nested data using default storage --------------------------------------------------------------
Key: PIG-527 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-527 Project: Pig Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: types_branch Reporter: Santhosh Srinivasan Assignee: Santhosh Srinivasan Fix For: types_branch Pig does not allow storing nested data using the default storage function (PigStorage) {code} grunt> a = load 'student_tab.data' as (name, age, gpa); grunt> b = group a by age; grunt> store b into '/user/sms/data/complex.data'; 2008-11-13 16:21:17,711 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 50% complete 2008-11-13 16:21:52,747 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - Map reduce job failed 2008-11-13 16:21:52,747 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - Job failed! 2008-11-13 16:21:52,764 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.Launcher - Error message from task (reduce) task_200809241441_21188_r_000000java.io.IOException: Cannot store a non-flat tuple using PigStorage at org.apache.pig.builtin.PigStorage.putNext(PigStorage.java:196) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigOutputFormat$PigRecordWriter.write(PigOutputFormat.java:116) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigOutputFormat$PigRecordWriter.write(PigOutputFormat.java:90) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$3.collect(ReduceTask.java:300) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigMapReduce$Reduce.processOnePackageOutput(PigMapReduce.java:238) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigMapReduce$Reduce.reduce(PigMapReduce.java:224) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigMapReduce$Reduce.reduce(PigMapReduce.java:136) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:318) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:2207) 2008-11-13 16:21:52,764 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.Launcher - Error message from task (reduce) task_200809241441_21188_r_000000java.io.IOException: Cannot store a non-flat tuple using PigStorage {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.