I checked the Pig repo and I see some recent activity. Rohini is actively
leading the effort towards a new Pig release. Given that there is proven
interest to maintain and contribute to this module I would prefer to keep
it for the time being unless there are major issues that I am not aware of.
Best,
Stamatis
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 9:09 PM Rohini Palaniswamy wrote:
> Hi Attila,
>We still use HCatLoader and HCatStorer heavily and would like to retain
> the support. We are also fixing it to work with Iceberg tables and will be
> contributing patches for both Hive 3 and Hive 4. So would like the support
> to be continued with Hive 4.
>
> Regards,
> Rohini
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:59 AM Alessandro Solimando <
> alessandro.solima...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > +1 from me, let's just make sure we make a good salame out of it :)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alessandro
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 10:50, Attila Turoczy
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> In Hive we have a pretty old component from 1972 and this is the Pig.
> Pig
> >> was cool somewhere in 2008, but nowadays it does not have any value in
> the
> >> big data world. Even the last small release of big was 6 years ago in
> 2017,
> >> also the pig community has pretty much died. Because this component is
> >> obsolete I would suggest removing it from Hive 4.0. The hive 3 will
> still
> >> contain it, but I think this is a right time to remove those components
> >> that are not valuable for the community.
> >>
> >> What do you think about it?
> >>
> >> Ps: If nobody wrote it back, It would mean I could kill the pig (rof
> rof)
> >> :)
> >>
> >> -Attila
> >>
> >
>
