Jeff, Slicers dont work in local mode, there is an ancient ticket for that on the Jira.
Richard -- hard to say whats going on without more code. Think you can come up with a simplified version of your loadfunc that fails in a similar manner, and share it? -----Original Message----- From: "zjffdu" <zjf...@gmail.com> To: pig-dev@hadoop.apache.org Sent: 10/27/2009 1:45 AM Subject: RE: Custom Loadfunc problem! Illustrate will not execute the job, while dump and store will execute it. So I think there must be something wrong with your custom slicer. I suggest you set breakpoint in your slicer and debug it in map reduce mode locally -----Original Message----- From: RichardGUO Fei [mailto:gladiato...@hotmail.com] Sent: 20091026 0:43 To: pig-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Custom Loadfunc problem! Hi, Btw, my program works with ILLUSTRATE but n [truncated by sender]