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Olga Natkovich commented on PIG-1606: ------------------------------------- Is this even the semantics we want. I would expect a single row with an empty field. > flatten documentation does not discuss flatten of empty bag > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-1606 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1606 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Components: documentation > Reporter: Thejas M Nair > Fix For: 0.9.0 > > > From the existing flatten documentation, it is not clear that flatten of an > empty bag results in that row being discarded . > For example the following query gives no output - > {code} > grunt> cat /tmp/empty.bag > {} 1 > grunt> l = load '/tmp/empty.bag' as (b : bag{}, i : int); > grunt> f = foreach l generate flatten(b), i; > grunt> dump f; > grunt> > {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.