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Olga Natkovich commented on PIG-664:
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I am reviewing this changes. The patch looks good. Running the tests now. Will
commit once they complete
> Semantics of * is not consistent
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>
> Key: PIG-664
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-664
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: impl
> Affects Versions: types_branch
> Reporter: Santhosh Srinivasan
> Assignee: Santhosh Srinivasan
> Fix For: types_branch
>
> Attachments: PIG-664.patch
>
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> The semantics of * is not consistent in PIG. The use of * with generate
> results in the all the columns of the record being flattened. However, the
> use of * as an input to a UDF results in a tuple (wrapped in another tuple).
> For consistency, * should always result in all the columns of the record
> (i.e., flattened). The use of * occurs in:
> 1. Foreach generate: E.g.: foreach input generate *;
> 2. Input to UDFs: E.g. foreach input generate myUDF(*);
> 3. Order by: E.g.: order input by *;
> 4. (Co)Group: E.g.: group a by *; cogroup a by *, b by *;
> In terms of implementation, this involves rolling back the fix introduced in
> PIG-597 and fixing the following builtin UDFs:
> 1. ARITY - Should return the size of the input tuple instead of extracting
> the first column of the input tuple
> 2. SIZE - Should return the size of the input tuple instead of extracting the
> first column of the input tuple
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