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Olga Natkovich commented on PIG-20:
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We decided to go ahead with the earlier patch because it works correctly and we
have gone through full QA cycle on it. We might choose to integrate other
changes at a later point.
> Sorting using custom comparison functions
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> Key: PIG-20
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-20
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: impl
> Reporter: Olga Natkovich
> Fix For: 0.1.0
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> Attachments: usercompare.patch
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> Currently, onlu string based sorting is supported. Once we have types,
> numeric sort will be supported as well. However, soem users express need for
> custome comparison functions for sort.
> Alan put together a design document for this:
> http://wiki.apache.org/pig/UserDefinedOrdering
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