Ben and Utkarsh,
I updated the user defined ordering doc on wiki
(http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UserDefinedOrdering) based on our
conversation yesterday. Please take a look and make sure I got all the
wiring through SortPartitioner and hadoop correct.
Ben, on the idea of passing arguments to the sort function, I left that
off for now. I don't want to preclude it, but I think the requests for
this feature are fairly time sensitive so I want to get to a point that
Patrick can start working on it ASAP. We can add it arguments later.
Alan.