Calvin,
Generally, the pattern is to make a new column which represents whatever
you want things to be compared on, and then partition/order/whatever on
that column. There are some cases where this is insufficient, but 99.9% of
the time I've found it to be fine.
Jon
2012/8/9 Alan Gates
> There
There isn't a replacement for ComparisonFunc. That was written before Pig had
types so that users could do type specific comparison functions. With the
addition of types it was felt that ComparisonFunc was no longer necessary.
That said, it's never been removed. The testing is limited at th
Since ComparisonFunc is now depreciated, what is its replacement? I can't
any information in the Javadoc. Is it safe to continue to extend
ComparisonFunc for custom ordering?
Thanks.
Calvin
