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Pradeep Kamath commented on PIG-953:
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I see the first part as a coding style preference - I have done both styles in
code myself - don't think it is a major issue with readability with current
implementation
Can you explain the NPE? If either object is null, the code would return with
false unless both are null. If checkEquality is false, the caller should know
that only null equality has been checked thus far and if true was returned then
the two objects are null and hence equal. My main intent was to have this
helper function be used from other Class's equals() implementation so that this
mundane check for null need not be repeated in every equals implementation.
Maybe I am not understanding your use case better - an example might help.
> Enable merge join in pig to work with loaders and store functions which can
> internally index sorted data
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> Key: PIG-953
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-953
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.3.0
> Reporter: Pradeep Kamath
> Assignee: Pradeep Kamath
> Attachments: PIG-953.patch
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> Currently merge join implementation in pig includes construction of an index
> on sorted data and use of that index to seek into the "right input" to
> efficiently perform the join operation. Some loaders (notably the zebra
> loader) internally implement an index on sorted data and can perform this
> seek efficiently using their index. So the use of the index needs to be
> abstracted in such a way that when the loader supports indexing, pig uses it
> (indirectly through the loader) and does not construct an index.
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