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Thejas M Nair commented on PIG-2223: ------------------------------------ The second error is thrown during a getSchema call made during parsing, to determine if an identifier is a scalar variable or not. The project star expansion has not happened at that point, resulting in exception such as the following. {code} Caused by: org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.FrontendException: ERROR 1128: Cannot find field b in :tuple(a:int,b:int,c:int) at org.apache.pig.newplan.logical.expression.DereferenceExpression.translateAliasToPos(DereferenceExpression.java:201) at org.apache.pig.newplan.logical.expression.DereferenceExpression.getFieldSchema(DereferenceExpression.java:169) at org.apache.pig.newplan.logical.relational.LOGenerate.getSchema(LOGenerate.java:88) at org.apache.pig.newplan.logical.relational.LOForEach.getSchema(LOForEach.java:63) at org.apache.pig.parser.LogicalPlanGenerator.alias_col_ref(LogicalPlanGenerator.java:15110) ... 23 more {code} > error accessing column in output schema of udf having project-star input > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: PIG-2223 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2223 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.9.0 > Reporter: Thejas M Nair > Assignee: Thejas M Nair > Fix For: 0.9.1 > > Attachments: PIG-2223.1.patch, PIG-2223.2.patch > > > (from Grahame's email) - > {code} > describe a; > a: {f1: int,f2: int,f3: int,f4: int,f5: int,f6: int,f7: int,f8: int,f9: > int,f10: int} > aa = FOREACH a GENERATE $0, TOTUPLE($2,$3,$4,$5); > aaa = FOREACH aa GENERATE $0, $1.$0; -- OK > aaa = FOREACH aa GENERATE $0, $1.f3; -- OK > aaa = FOREACH aa GENERATE $0, $1.$1; -- OK > aaa = FOREACH aa GENERATE $0, $1.f4; -- OK > aa = FOREACH a GENERATE $0, TOTUPLE($2..$5); -- should be the same as above? > aaa = FOREACH aa GENERATE $0, $1.$0; -- OK > aaa = FOREACH aa GENERATE $0, $1.f3; -- ERROR > aaa = FOREACH aa GENERATE $0, $1.$1; -- ERROR > aaa = FOREACH aa GENERATE $0, $1.f4; -- ERROR > {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira