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Alan Gates commented on PIG-1381:
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Option 3 also entails moving from key=value format to xml format, correct? Is
there any value to the xml format beyond conformity with the rest of Hadoop? I
think key=value is easier for people to understand.
For option 2 I think we'd need to provide an empty pig.properties file (just as
hadoop provides an empty hadoop-site.xml).
> Need a way for Pig to take an alternative property file
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> Key: PIG-1381
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1381
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: impl
> Affects Versions: 0.7.0
> Reporter: Daniel Dai
> Fix For: 0.8.0
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> Currently, Pig read the first ever pig.properties in CLASSPATH. Pig has a
> default pig.properties and if user have a different pig.properties, there
> will be a conflict since we can only read one. There are couple of ways to
> solve it:
> 1. Give a command line option for user to pass an additional property file
> 2. Change the name for default pig.properties to pig-default.properties, and
> user can give a pig.properties to override
> 3. Further, can we consider to use pig-default.xml/pig-site.xml, which seems
> to be more natural for hadoop community. If so, we shall provide backward
> compatibility to also read pig.properties, pig-cluster-hadoop-site.xml.
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