Harsh, thanks. On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > MR will partition and sort inputs by keys by the key comparator, and > then group them together when reading back via a grouping comparator > (which is usually the same as the key comparator). It will not re-sort > the values nor look at any of the value's fields during this process. > > If you want your values to be sorted, implementing secondary sort > would need to happen wherein you extract the value-sort attributes > onto your keys and have them grouped differently. > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:55 AM, jingguo yao <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is the Iterable values associated with a key sorted in any order? Are >> there are any configuration options controlling how the input values are >> sorted? >> >> I know that the secondary sort way can be used to achieve the same >> effect. I am not asking for a workaround. >> >> -- >> Jingguo > > > > -- > Harsh J
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