BAM! :-) On May 31, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
