I think pig UDFs are just classnames (case sensitive, LOWER is all capitals in built-in). Are you suggesting to add something like function registry to pig? That would be a good idea. As a workaround (or solution), we have pigrc and pigbootup to rename functions.
Thanks, Aniket On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Russell Jurney <russell.jur...@gmail.com>wrote: > Is it me, or is it weird that builtins like LOWER only work in lowercase? > > pairs = FOREACH flat GENERATE lower(from) AS from, lower(to) AS to, date; > > 2012-02-04 17:57:53,851 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - > ERROR 1070: Could not resolve lower using imports: [, > org.apache.pig.builtin., org.apache.pig.impl.builtin.] > > > I don't like. I have taken a moral oauth to move my Pig to lowercase, and > this is messing it up. > > -- > Russell Jurney > twitter.com/rjurney > russell.jur...@gmail.com > datasyndrome.com > -- "...:::Aniket:::... Quetzalco@tl"
