This is an issue in PigStorage  is present in recent versions of pig. Ie you
cannot have complex types (bag, tuple, map) as a value in map type, if you
are using PigStorage .
See - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1016

-Thejas


On 1/5/10 10:28 AM, "Alan Gates" <[email protected]> wrote:

> It should be supported.  You may need to explicitly cast it to a tuple
> so Pig knows to treat it as a tuple.  Can you send the scripts that
> are giving the error?
> 
> Alan.
> 
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Guy Bayes wrote:
> 
>> Is this supported?
>> 
>> Say I have a map
>> 
>> [f2#(1,6)]
>> 
>> I cannot figure out how to de-reference the (1,6) tuple, I either
>> get type
>> conversion failure and  () returned, or a 1066 error message "ERROR
>> 1066:
>> Unable to open iterator for alias"
>> 
>> thanks
>> Guy
> 

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