Take a look at MonitoredUDF, http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.9.2/udf.html search on MonitoredUDF.
Alan. On May 31, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Ahmed Sobhi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write an EvalFunc UDF... I know that in some rare cases my > data will cause my udf to take forever... for such cases, I want the udf to > just ignore these cases so I was thinking about having my logic timeout > somehow. > > Is there any easy way I can do this? > > I know that timeouts would require the use of threads so I'm not sure if > that would be ok or not. Can anyone provide more info on that? > > -- > Best Regards, > Ahmed Sobhi > http://about.me/humanzz/bio
