Yes, that is indeed better.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 06:39:58PM -0700, Jonathan Coveney wrote:
> Ideally, you should use the TOP function. It will be more efficient, as it
> is algebraic.
>
> 2012/6/29 Kris Coward <k...@melon.org>
>
> >
> > LIMIT and ORDER BY are both allowed nested ops for a FOREACH statement.
> > These should be able to do what you want.
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > B = GROUP A BY key
> > C = FOREACH B {
> > X = ORDER A BY orderingParam;
> > Y = LIMIT X 100;
> > GENERATE group, Y;}
> >
> > -Kris
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 04:19:18PM -0700, Benjamin Juhn wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to write a group by statement, only returning the top 100
> > records from each group. Does pig support this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ben
> >
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