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Richard Ding commented on PIG-1458: ----------------------------------- For 1. and 2. above, another approach is to do nothing and rely on MultiFileInputFormat (PIG-1518) to merge small files. > aggregate files for replicated join > ----------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-1458 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1458 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Olga Natkovich > Assignee: Richard Ding > Fix For: 0.8.0 > > > We have noticed that if the smaller data in replicated join has many files, > this puts unneeded burden on the name node. pre-aggregating the files can > improve the situation -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.