Thanks for that, arvind.

Y! folks, is there any public documentation for Penny?
Is there overlap there with the error handling proposal?

Also: think error handling can make it into 0.9 or are we thinking 0.10?

D

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:55 PM, arv...@cloudera.com
<arv...@cloudera.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the delay in sending this. Following are the notes from the last
> developer's meeting.
>
> Arvind
> -----------
> *Attendees*
>
>   - From Y!: Alan, Santosh, Romain, Daniel, Richard, Ashutosh, Ben, Julian
>   - From Cloudera: Arvind
>
> *Agenda*
>
>   - Error Handling
>   - Brainstorming Ideas For 0.9
>   - Brainstorming Ideas Beyond 0.9
>
> *Error Handling Suggestions/Proposal Discussion:*
>
>   - Allow each statement to declare ONERROR clause with a UDF to handle the
>   control in case of error.
>      - This would be better than current behavior of exiting on error.
>   - Alternatively, allow ONERROR to be declared for an entire
>   script/session which would allow individual statements to override and
>   provide a more specialized UDF for error handling.
>   - Yet another alternative - allow the specification of a threshold number
>   of errors that Pig ignores before exiting.
>   - Key idea is to ensure that the error handling is focused on data error
>   handling and not control-flow.
>   - Action Item: Post the key proposal on the Wiki.
>
> *Brainstorming Ideas For 0.9:*
>
>   - Internal development done by March
>   - Release tentatively by May
>   - Support for ILLUSTRATE.
>   - Current status:
>      - Parser rewrite almost complete
>      - Working on load data according to schema - support for padding
>      missing values
>      - No support for Boolean type planned yet.
>   - Big features in 0.9
>      - Parser change
>      - Macro support
>      - Jython/Script support
>      - Penny (Formally Inspector Gadget): framework to instrument scripts.
>      Allows detection of bad records that cause failures, implement
> constraints.
>         - Works by integrating with the optimizer to produce wrappers for
>         key UDFs of interest.
>         - Agents can be added in different parts of the query
>         - Prepackaged agents available, but framework allows the creation
>         of custom agents as needed.
>         - Pending work - implementation of unit tests, and turning this
>         into a patch.
>
> *Brainstorming Ideas Beyond 0.9:*
>
>   - Support for different backends for Pig (MR, Piranha, Local, Oozie)
>      - Execution engine that can generate plans specific to the underlying
>      architecture and allow controlling routines to
> rewrite/re-optimize the plan
>      mid-execution.
>   - Thread safety when running local jobs - to allow better embedding of
>   Pig as a light-weight tool in web-applications and other multi-threaded
>   environments.
>      - Work includes making UDF context thread-safe and removing statics
>      from the implementation.
>      - Will benefit Oozie and other systems that embed Pig without having
>      to worry about side-effects.
>   - Allow execution to resume from where it left off after due to runtime
>   failure.
>      - May be done by allowing Oozie as a backend where the plan is
>      converted into an Oozie workflow.
>      - Alternatively Pig could delegate blocks of execution to Oozie.
>   - Scalability: Pig should support users who may not know the intricate
>   details of the job/architecture. Things such as memory allocation, skew
>   handling etc automatically without user involvement.
>   - Allow pig to kill jobs already submitted if the shell exits due to a
>   Control+C or other failures.
>   - UDF 2.0 - simplify UDF interfaces, along with support for multiple
>   versions of the UDF at the same time.
>
>
> *General*
>
>   - Loops in Pig: No direct support, but available indirectly by
>   integration with scripting environments.
>   - Would be good to allow Pig to be provisioned across the cluster for
>   faster job startup.
>   - Pig-pen: not under active development and not supported.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Santhosh Srinivasan <s...@yahoo-inc.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Arvind from Cloudera took excellent notes. You should see it next week
> > after Alan gets a chance to review them.
> >
> > Santhosh
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dmitriy Ryaboy [mailto:dvrya...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 5:34 PM
> > To: dev@pig.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: REMINDER: Pig developer meeting in February
> >
> > Hi folks,
> > Any chance someone took notes? :)
> >
> > D
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <dvrya...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > I got sick and won't be able to make it. Would love to see some notes
> > > after the meeting :).
> > >
> > > D
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Olga Natkovich <ol...@yahoo-inc.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> Hi Guys,
> > >>
> > >> We are looking forward to see you tomorrow at 4 pm at Yahoo campus in
> > Sunnyvale.
> > >>
> > >> Yahoo address is
> > >>
> > >> 701 First Ave.
> > >> Sunnyvale, CA 94089
> > >>
> > >> We are in building E. Please, ask for Alan or me at the reception.
> > >>
> > >> Olga
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Olga Natkovich [mailto:ol...@yahoo-inc.com]
> > >> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:42 AM
> > >> To: dev@pig.apache.org
> > >> Subject: REMINDER: Pig developer meeting in February
> > >>
> > >> Hi guys,
> > >>
> > >> This is just a reminder that the meeting will be held next Wednesday,
> > 2/9 4-6 pm at Yahoo campus.
> > >>
> > >> If you have not yet responded but planning to attend, please, let me
> > know.
> > >>
> > >> Olga
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Santhosh Srinivasan [mailto:s...@yahoo-inc.com]
> > >> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:36 PM
> > >> To: dev@pig.apache.org
> > >> Subject: RE: Pig developer meeting in February
> > >>
> > >> I am planning to attend.
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Olga Natkovich [mailto:ol...@yahoo-inc.com]
> > >> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:58 PM
> > >> To: dev@pig.apache.org
> > >> Subject: RE: Pig developer meeting in February
> > >>
> > >> I believe we have critical mass so the meeting is on!
> > >>
> > >> If you have not responded yet but planning to attend, please, let me
> > know.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Olga
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Julien Le Dem [mailto:led...@yahoo-inc.com]
> > >> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 5:21 PM
> > >> To: dev@pig.apache.org
> > >> Subject: Re: Pig developer meeting in February
> > >>
> > >> Me too.
> > >> Julien
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 1/27/11 4:09 PM, "Dmitriy Ryaboy" <dvrya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Ok yeah I'll come :).
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Olga Natkovich <ol...@yahoo-inc.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> While there is a lively discussion on this thread, I have not
> > >>> actually gotten any responses to having the meeting with exception of
> 1
> > person :).
> > >>>
> > >>> Please, let me know by the end of the week if you are planning to
> > attend.
> > >>> If we don't get at least a few more responses I suggest we postpone
> > >>> the meeting.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>> Olga
> > >>>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: Dmitriy Ryaboy [mailto:dvrya...@gmail.com]
> > >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:04 PM
> > >>> To: dev@pig.apache.org
> > >>> Subject: Re: Pig developer meeting in February
> > >>>
> > >>> Right, we do partition filtering, but not true predicate pushdown.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Daniel Dai <jiany...@yahoo-inc.com>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> > Are you talking about LoadMetadata.setPartitionFilter?
> > >>> > PartitionFilterOptimizer will do that.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Daniel
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Dmitriy Ryaboy wrote:
> > >>> >
> > >>> >> I may be wrong but I think predicate pushdown is designed for,
> > >>> >> but not actually implemented in the current LoadPushdown
> > >>> >> interface (you can only push projections). If I am wrong, that's
> > >>> >> great.. but if not, that would
> > >>> be
> > >>> >> an important feature to add, as people are trying to connect Pig
> > >>> >> to "smart"
> > >>> >> storage systems like rdbmses, HBase, and Cassandra more and more.
> > >>> >> I
> > >>> think
> > >>> >> we only kind of simulate this with partition keys info, which is
> > >>> >> not always sufficient
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> D
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Julien Le Dem
> > >>> >> <led...@yahoo-inc.com>
> > >>> >> wrote:
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >>> If making Pig Thread safe (i.e.: two threads running a different
> > >>> >>> pig
> > >>> >>> script) is important then we need to change some of the APIs
> > >>> >>> from
> > >>> static
> > >>> >>> singleton access to a dependency injection pattern.
> > >>> >>> In that case, this should probably be done before 1.0 For
> example:
> > >>> >>> UDFContext should be passed to the UDF after construction
> > >>> >>> (similar to the SevrletContext in Servlet or the way Hadoop
> > >>> >>> passes the context to tasks) Also a clearly separated API that
> > >>> >>> does not depend on the Pig implementation would help.
> > >>> >>> For example UDFContext is in org.apache.pig.impl.util when it
> > >>> >>> would be better in org.apache.pig.api (Or at least an interface
> > >>> >>> defining it)
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>> Julien
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>> On 1/24/11 10:14 AM, "Olga Natkovich" <ol...@yahoo-inc.com>
> wrote:
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>> Hi Guys,
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>> I think it is time for us to have another meeting. Yahoo would
> > >>> >>> be happy to host if this works for everybody. How about
> > >>> >>> Wednesday,
> > >>> >>> 2/9 4-6 pm.
> > >>> >>> Please,
> > >>> >>> let us know if you are planning to attend and if the date/time
> > >>> >>> works
> > >>> for
> > >>> >>> you.
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>> Things that come to mind to discuss and as always feel free to
> > >>> >>> suggest
> > >>> >>> others:
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>> -          Error handling proposal - this might be easier to
> > >>> >>> finalize face-to-face
> > >>> >>> -          Pig 0.9 plan
> > >>> >>> -          Pig Roadmap beyond 0.9 o        What do we want to do
> > >>> >>> in Pig.next?
> > >>> >>> o        Are we ready for Pig 1.0
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>> Olga
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>>
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
>

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