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Koji Noguchi commented on PIG-3257: ----------------------------------- Would this ensure that same unique identifier is reproduced when (map) task attempt is retried? Otherwise, I'm afraid it would lead to a random pig behavior when we use this id as the map-reduce key. > Add unique identifier UDF > ------------------------- > > Key: PIG-3257 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3257 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: internal-udfs > Reporter: Alan Gates > Assignee: Alan Gates > Fix For: 0.12 > > Attachments: PIG-3257.patch > > > It would be good to have a Pig function to generate unique identifiers. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira