I don't think version is a problem. variables is probably supported from the
start of the Pig.
Using
STORE result INTO 'out-$date';
I mentioned about, when you run the pig script, you just add "-param
date=20110522'" to your command line. What is the problem you see?
2011/5/21 Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo <renatoj.marroq...@gmail.com>
> Thanks Dexin! I tried that but that did not work for me. I am using
> Pig 0.7, what version of Pig do you use?
> Yeah I think I could move it aside, but the problem is that I need to
> keep track of the results, and if I move them aside then I would have
> to rename the results of each job sequentially because my jobs can
> repeat many times, but their results are different.
> Thanks again.
>
> Renato M.
>
> 2011/5/20 Dexin Wang <wangde...@gmail.com>:
> > Yeah I do that all the time.
> >
> > STORE result INTO 'out-$date';
> >
> > Or you could run the pig script then after it's done move the result
> aside.
> >
> >
> > On May 20, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo<
> renatoj.marroq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I have a sequence of jobs which are run daily and usually the logs
> >> and results are erased every time they have to be re-run. Now we want
> >> to keep those logs and results, but if the results already exist, the
> >> pig job fails. I thought that maybe setting the results' name + date
> >> would solve it for me. Can I do that from pig? Do you guys have any
> >> other suggestions?
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>
> >> Renato M.
> >
>
