Do you have a FLATTEN() involved? FLATTEN(null) can cause IndexOutOfBounds exception. ( if that is the case, see http://www.mail-archive.com/user@pig.apache.org/msg02275.html )
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Eli Finkelshteyn <iefin...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > When doing an inner join on a column where some values are NULL, I get the > following error: > java.lang.**IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 1, Size: 1 > > I can fix this by simply filtering out the NULL values in a separate step > before joining, but the current behavior doesn't sound right to me, so I > wanted to ask here before I do that. What's happening now sounds a lot like > this: > https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/PIG-1131<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1131> > That bug was fixed on PIG 0.7, and I'm using PIG 0.8.1, so I'm trying to > decide whether I should reopen it, or whether this is something else. Ideas? > > Eli >