I bet we'd make more pig scripts correctly than we would break.

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On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Alan Gates <ga...@hortonworks.com> wrote:

> I don't see how we do this now without creating backward compatibility
> nightmares.
>
> Alan.
>
> On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy wrote:
>
> > The COUNT_STAR thing bites people a lot -- clearly, even the most
> advanced
> > Pig users mess this up once in a while. It's a really hard bug to track
> > down. We should reconsider our decision to make COUNT work the way it
> does.
> >
> > D
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Dai <da...@hortonworks.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Raghu Angadi <ang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> great to see major user facing features. Thanks guys.
> >>>
> >>> Will we see some standard macros (e.g. rowcount()) similar to standard
> >>> UDFs?
> >>>
> >>> Even rowcount may not be trivial for casual user to do correctly.
> Should
> >>> rowcount() example in the blog should COUNT_STAR() rather than COUNT()?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes, thanks pointing it out. I put a note on the blog.
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Raghu.
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Dai <da...@hortonworks.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We wrote a serial of blogs to describe the new feature of Pig 0.9.0 on
> >>>> http://www.hortonworks.com/blog/. This serial contains three blogs
> and
> >>>> will
> >>>> be published in a few days.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Daniel
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Olga Natkovich <ol...@yahoo-inc.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Pig  team is happy to announce Pig 0.9.0 release.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Apache Pig provides a high-level data-flow language and execution
> >>>> framework
> >>>>> for parallel computation on Hadoop clusters. More details about Pig
> >> can
> >>>> be
> >>>>> found at http://pig.apache.org/.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The highlights of this release are introduction of control
> >> structures,
> >>>>> change of query parser, and semantic cleanup. The details of the
> >>> release
> >>>> can
> >>>>> be found at http://pig.apache.org/releases.html.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Olga
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>

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