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Ashutosh Chauhan commented on PIG-1381:
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+1 on the changes.
For completeness, we can also check in an empty pig.properties in the conf dir
and then add comments in both pig.properties and pig-default.properties that if
user wants to pass some properties doing it through pig-default.properties will
have no effect and instead they should add extra properties they want to
add/override in pig.properties.
> Need a way for Pig to take an alternative property file
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
> Assignee: V.V.Chaitanya Krishna
> Fix For: 0.7.0, 0.8.0
>
> Attachments: PIG-1381-1.patch, PIG-1381-2.patch, PIG-1381-3.patch,
> PIG-1381-4.patch
>
>
> 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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