Dan, The bug in question is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1828 You can get around it by turning off splitCombination globally, but that's pretty bad. Though you didn't have it in 0.6 so I guess you wouldn't miss it :).
D On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Dan Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > We're still using HBase 0.20.6 with Pig 0.6 and we'll be upgrading to > Pig 0.8 soon, but a HBase 0.90 is planned for us soon too so we should > be on that before we need to upgrade to Pig > 0.8. > > How serious is the HBaseStorage in 0.8? Should we wait for 0.8.1 > before upgrading? > > Eitherway I think for us upgrading to HBase 0.90 is more important as > you say, so we can always upgrade to Pig 0.8.1 at the same time, so > I've got no problem with it requiring HBase 0.90. > > Thanks, > > On 14 February 2011 05:43, Bill Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > > > On Sunday, February 13, 2011, Jacob Perkins <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +1 > >> > >> --jacob > >> @thedatachef > >> > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi folks, > >> Is anyone who uses HBaseStorage in Pig still on hbase 0.20.6? > >> There are a number of tickets outstanding to improve HBaseStorage and > >> I've suggested that we should add a shim layer to work between the > >> different versions, but it's a big pain to do. I'd rather just move on > >> to supporting 0.90 only. We just upgraded Twitter's HBase version last > >> week and it's oh-my-god better in terms of stability, and the upgrade > >> was pretty smooth.. Objections? > >> > >> If everyone is ok with that for Pig 0.9 -- how about Pig 0.8.1? There > >> are a number of bug fixes for 0.8 already in the branch, and there's a > >> pretty critical HBaseStorage bug fix that needs to go in, as well. > >> Would it be too surprising if 0.8 started requiring a different > >> version of hbase all of a sudden when you upgrade a minor version? > >> > >> D > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > Dan Harvey | Datamining Engineer > www.mendeley.com/profiles/dan-harvey > > Mendeley Limited | London, UK | www.mendeley.com > Registered in England and Wales | Company Number 6419015 >
