Hello, Please refer to this JIRA recently created by David about the very same enhancement, for some reasoning on why and possible solutions along with it: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2293
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Jun Young Kim <juneng...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Multipleoutputs supports to have named outputs as a result of a hadoop. > but, it has inconvenient restrictions to have it. > > only, alphabet characters are valid as a named output. > > A ~ Z > a ~ z > 0 ~ 9 > > are only characters we can take. > > I believe if I can use other chars like '.', '_', it could be more > convenient for me. > > -- > Junyoung Kim (juneng...@gmail.com) > > -- Harsh J www.harshj.com