I am on the official release of 0.6 with a few patches, mostly adding
piggybank stuff.
You can grab my particular blend from the pig-twttr branch on my
github fork. It's all existing patches, just a bit of occasional
backporting.
No guarantees regarding stability, for that you need to hit up Cloudera :-).

-D

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Russell Jurney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, I'm on Apache Pig version 0.6.1-dev (rexported).  Perhaps I should
> upgrade!
>
> I was able to code my way out of the schema black hole with this:
>
> all_things = UNION thing1, thing2, ...;
> all_things = FOREACH all_things GENERATE $0 AS field1, $1 AS field2, $2
> AS field3;
> all_things = FOREACH all_things GENERATE (chararray) field1 AS
> field1:chararray, (chararray)field2 AS field2  chararray,
> (double)field3 AS field3:double;
>
> Apparently in 0.6 you could cast to a named bytearray, then cast that
> bytearray to any named type.
>
> Russ
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What version of pig are you using?
>>
>> [dmit...@sjc1j039 ~]$ pig -x local
>> 2010-05-07 19:58:12,905 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.Main - Logging
>> error messages to: /var/log/pig/pig_1273262292904.log
>> grunt> set1 = load 'tmp/numbers' as (a:chararray, b:int, c:int);
>> grunt> set2 = load 'tmp/numbers' as (a:chararray, b:int, c:int);
>> grunt> describe set1;
>> set1: {a: chararray,b: int,c: int}
>> grunt> describe set2;
>> set2: {a: chararray,b: int,c: int}
>> grunt> unioned = union set1, set2;
>> grunt> describe unioned;
>> unioned: {a: chararray,b: int,c: int}
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Russell Jurney
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I have tried to UNION the results before the group, and I have found that
>> > once I UNION, I can never recreate a schema.  Is this a bug?
>> >
>> >> DESCRIBE thing1;
>> > thing1: {name: chararray,property1: chararray,property2: double}
>> >> DESCRIBE thing2;
>> > thing2: {name: chararray,property1: chararray,property2: double}
>> >
>> > combined_things = UNION thing1, thing2;
>> >> DESCRIBE combined_things;
>> > Schema for combined_things unknown.
>> >
>> >> DUMP combined_things;
>> > Output is fine!
>> >
>> >> combined_things = FOREACH combined_things GENERATE $0 AS name:chararray,
>> > $1 AS property1:chararray, $2 AS property2:double;
>> > 2010-05-07 11:49:17,015 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt -
>> > ERROR 1022: Type mismatch merging schema prefix. Field Schema: bytearray.
>> > Other Field Schema: given: chararray
>> >
>> >> combined_things = FOREACH combined_things GENERATE (chararray)$0 AS
>> > name:chararray, (chararray)$1 AS property1:chararray, (double )$2 AS
>> > property2:double;
>> > 2010-05-07 11:52:53,305 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt -
>> > ERROR 2999: Unexpected internal error.
>> > org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.FrontendException cannot be cast to
>> > java.lang.Error
>> >
>> > My schema is gone, and I can never ever have it back because I have
>> unioned?
>> >  Is that a bug, or is this the intended behavior?
>> >
>> > Russ
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Russell Jurney <[email protected]
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have a bunch of grouped datasets that I need to union and store.  When
>> I
>> >> union them, they lose their schema.  I need the schema for my output
>> storage
>> >> function to work.  How do I recreate my a schema with a bag of tuples in
>> it
>> >> with a GENERATE/AS?
>> >>
>> >> The schema of each union'd source (all the same) was: g_records: {key:
>> >> chararray,values: {A2: chararray,A3: double}}
>> >>
>> >> Code:
>> >>
>> >> ------------------
>> >>
>> >> records = LOAD 'records' USING PigStorage('\t') AS (A1:chararray,
>> >> A2:chararray, A3:double);
>> >> g_records = GROUP records BY A1;
>> >> g_records = FOREACH g_records GENERATE $0 AS key:chararray, $1 AS
>> values;
>> >> g_records = FOREACH g_records GENERATE key, values.(A2, A3);
>> >>
>> >> > DESCRIBE g_records: {key: chararray,values: {A2: chararray,A3:
>> double}}
>> >>
>> >> all_g_records = UNION g_records, g_records_2, g_records_3, g_records_4;
>> >>
>> >> /* Problem for me: */
>> >> > DESCRIBE all_g_records: Schema for all_g_records unknown.
>> >>
>> >> output_records = FOREACH all_g_records GENERATE $0 AS key:chararray, $1
>> AS
>> >> values:bag []  # errr... how?
>> >>
>> >> ------------------
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> Russell Jurney
>> >> [email protected]
>> >>
>> >
>>
>

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