Here is the JIRA for this feature: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1746
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:22:45 -0800 > Subject: Re: Debugging Pig Job > > > > > On 11/16/10 2:53 PM, "rakesh kothari" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am using Pig 0.7.0. Is there a good way to have Pig assign an informative > > name to each of the MR Job generated in Pig Physical plan ? Maybe name of > > the > > relation itself. > > > > This is a good suggestion. In current versions, your pig query is in a file, > the file name is part of the job name. But all MR jobs for the query have > this same name. Having relation name as part of job name might not be very > useful as the mapping of relation to MR job is not 1:1 . > I think a name of the form "PigLatin:name:mrid" will be useful. Where name > is the name of the query file, or 'set job.name' or PigServer.setJobName() . > And mrid is an id corresponding to each MR job, and this id would be printed > in output of explain command (which also shows what relations are > corresponding to the MR job). > Can you please open a jira for this feature ? > > > Also I am not able to customize my job name using PigServer.setJobName(). I > > am > > calling it just before registering my pig script. Am I missing something ? > > > > This is a bug. Can you please open a jira? This might be related to - > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1674 > > Thanks, > Thejas >
