Not sure what you mean.. can you write out the script you are thinking of
that is currently not supported, and we'll see if there's a method for
getting it to work?
I suspect a judicious use for the pig scalar feature might be in order.

D

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Xiaomeng Wan <[email protected]> wrote:

> you can change
>
> GENERATE group, auctionsPrice.price AS price:tuple, p5 AS p5, p95 AS p95;
> to
> GENERATE FLATTEN(group) as (item, region, realm, faction),
> FLATTEN(auctionsPrice.price) AS price, p5 AS p5, p95 AS p95;
>
> then regroup after the foreach block
>
> p2 = FILTER p1 BY (price >= p5 AND price <= p95);
> p2a = group p2 by (item, region, realm, faction);
> p3 = FOREACH p2a GENERATE group, AVG(p2.price) AS price;
>
> or write you own UDF to get the average within the foreach block. It
> would be ideal if we can move p2 statement into the foreach block like
> this: p2 = filter autionsPrice by price >= p5 and price <= p95, but i
> donot think it is supported right now.
>
> Shawn
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Pierre-Luc Brunet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Heya!
> >
> > I've been trying to do something with Pig for about 4 days now and I have
> nothing but failure to show for it. I was wondering if anybody could look at
> my queries and slap some sense into me? I've uploaded the queries to
>  pastebin: http://pastebin.com/kzMxYwrY
> >
> > In short, I want to take my data, group it by 4 fields, then for each
> group, I want to:
> >  - Find out the 5th and the 95th percentile for the 'price'
> >  - Filter each group to remove the records that are < 5th percentile and
> > 95 percentile.
> >
> > Then for each group, I want to grab the AVG() of what's left.
> >
> > I tried many variations of the same code and always ended up with either
> "incompatible types in GreaterThanEqual Operator" or "Scalar has more than
> one row in the output."
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :)
> > --
> > Pierre-Luc Brunet
> >
>

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