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Yan Zhou commented on PIG-1518:
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Another approach is to mark splits as uncombinable only when necessary.
Specifically, MergeJoinIndexer and the base load in mapside cogroup need to be
excluded from the split combination.
Breaking backward compatinility is probably too much a risk to take. In the
meanwhile, OrderedLoadFunc has a notion of "being evolving" that will leave
some headroom for future semantic polishes.
> multi file input format for loaders
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> Key: PIG-1518
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1518
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Olga Natkovich
> Assignee: Yan Zhou
> Fix For: 0.8.0
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> We frequently run in the situation where Pig needs to deal with small files
> in the input. In this case a separate map is created for each file which
> could be very inefficient.
> It would be greate to have an umbrella input format that can take multiple
> files and use them in a single split. We would like to see this working with
> different data formats if possible.
> There are already a couple of input formats doing similar thing:
> MultifileInputFormat as well as CombinedInputFormat; howevere, neither works
> with ne Hadoop 20 API.
> We at least want to do a feasibility study for Pig 0.8.0.
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