from your schema b:bag{t:tuple(a:chararray, b:chararray)}
your tuple is inside a bag so on the next line if you are trying to access
through $1 pig will
throw up an error saying non-existent column.
but if your question is about accessing b than it will print empty () if the
there is no value present (as you are setting it as null).
--
Harsha
On Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Mohit Anchlia wrote:
> Thanks! Does "generate" skip over that? if I did b = for B generate $1 what
> should be expected outcome of alias "b"
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Harsha <[email protected]
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mohit,
> > it won't convert into string literal 'NULL' since its a tuple
> > you'll see results like
> > ('Hello',)
> >
> > --
> > Harsha
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Mohit Anchlia wrote:
> >
> > > Any help would be appreciated. I'll also write something shortly and see
> > > what happens.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[email protected]
> > > (mailto:[email protected])(mailto:
> > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]))>wrote:
> > >
> > > > If I define and set tuple like this:
> > > >
> > > > Tuple t1 = mTupleFactory.newTuple(2);
> > > > t1.set(0, "Hello");
> > > > t1.set(1, NULL);
> > > >
> > > > and have schema like:
> > > >
> > > > b:bag{t:tuple(a:chararray, b:chararray)
> > > >
> > > > and then in the pig script if I do:
> > > >
> > > > page = foreach B generate b;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > What should be expected outcome? Would "generate" convert NULL into
> > > > literal 'NULL' as a string? Or does it skip over that NULL.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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