RE: What is a relation?

2008-12-11 Thread Santhosh Srinivasan
operations on this type. Santhosh -Original Message- From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:10 PM To: pig-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: What is a relation? All of what you say sounds like a feature to me rather than a problem. Yes

What is a relation?

2008-12-05 Thread Alan Gates
All, A question on types in pig. When you say: A = load 'myfile'; what exactly is A? For the moment let us call A a relation, since it is a set of records, and we can pass it to a relational operator, such as FILTER, ORDER, etc. To clarify the question, is a relation equivalent to a