[jira] Created: (PIG-900) ORDER BY syntax wrt parentheses is somewhat different than GROUP BY and FILTER BY

[David Ciemiewicz (JIRA)]

ORDER BY syntax wrt parentheses is somewhat different than GROUP BY and FILTER 
BY
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                 Key: PIG-900
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-900
             Project: Pig
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: David Ciemiewicz


With GROUP BY, you must put parentheses around the aliases in the BY clause:

{code}
B = group A by ( a, b, c );
{code}

With FILTER BY, you can optionally put parentheses around the aliases in the BY 
clause:

{code}
B = filter A by ( a is not null and b is not null and c is not null );
{code}

However, with ORDER BY, if you put parenthesis around the BY clause, you get a 
syntax error:

{code}
 A = order A by ( a, b, c);
{code}

Produces the error:

{code}
2009-08-03 18:26:29,544 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 
1000: Error during parsing. Encountered " "," ", "" at line 3, column 19.
Was expecting:
    ")" ...
{code}

This is an annoyance really.

{code}
A = load 'data.txt' using PigStorage as (a: chararray, b: chararray, c: 
chararray );

A = order A by ( a, b, c );

dump A;
{code}


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