Hi Jonathan, The PIG UDF will generate a block of sequence numbers. The parent PIG script will call this UDF in a foreach statement and the UDF has to return the next number from the sequence.
Thanks Shibu Thomas MSCIS-IS Office : +91 (40) 669 32660 Mobile: +91 95811 51116 -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Coveney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Retaining state in PIG UDF You need to be clearer about what you hope to achieve 2012/2/22 Shibu Thomas <[email protected]> > Hi, > > Is there any mechanism of retaining state between PIG UDF invocations? > > Thanks > > Shibu Thomas > MSCIS-IS > Office : +91 (40) 669 32660 > Mobile: +91 95811 51116 > >
