On Nov 17, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Prashant Kommireddi wrote: > I understand Pig supports only Gzip and Bzip compression algorithms. Would > it be fine if I set map output compression (between map and reduce) to > SnappyCodec? I am guessing this should not be a problem.
AFAIK it would be fine, but we haven't tested it. > > Also, is there a plan to add support for SnappyCodec (Load snappy > compressed files)? We would like to do that, but haven't gotten to it yet. You can watch https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2319 for progress. Alan. > > Thanks, > Prashant
