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Dmitriy V. Ryaboy commented on PIG-953: --------------------------------------- Pradeep, Have you looked at Alan's Load/Store redesign proposal? It has a structure very similar to the one you are describing, used to describe the schema of the loaded resource. I think it makes sense to use that structure throughout, not just at Load time; it could effectively replace SortColumn/SortInfo. > Enable merge join in pig to work with loaders and store functions which can > internally index sorted data > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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-953-2.patch, PIG-953.patch > > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.