On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Owen O'Malley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > > > But this only guarantees that the results will be sorted within each > > reducers input. Thus, this won't result in getting the results > > sorted by > > the reducers output value. > > I thought the question was how to get the values sorted within a call > to reduce. Of course if you are trying to sort the reduce output on a > key other than the key that was used coming out of the map, you do > need another job. >
Yes, I need to sort the output coming output of reduce... so the solution is to run another MR job. thanks guys for your replies... they were very useful. -Taran > -- Owen >
