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David Ciemiewicz commented on PIG-625: -------------------------------------- I was just about to file a request similar to this and have been threatening to do so for quite some time. I live and die by littering my Pig scripts with DESCRIBE statements. One of the most common wastes of my time is finding out I have a typo in the alias name in DESCRIBE statements as I do code refactoring and copy and paste coding between scripts. If I simply had the ability to add -describe on my command lines, that would make my life so much easier. And it would make my pig scripts so much cleaner because they wouldn't have the DESCRIBE litter. > Add global -explain, -illustrate, -describe mode to PIG > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-625 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-625 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Yiping Han > > Currently PIG has the command EXPLAIN, ILLUSTRATE and DESCRIBE. But user need > to manually add/remove these lines in the script when they want to debug or > see details of the job. I think there should be a wait to enable these > globally. > What I suggest is, to add -explain, -illustrate, -describe options to PIG > command line. When either of these are presented, all the DUMP and STORE > commands in the script are converted into EXPLAIN, ILLUSTRATE, DESCRIBE > correspondingly. This makes debugging easier. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.