Could this be a problem with the original read of the data. It is stored in
Json format and read with a custom Json loader.
If I save the results of the loader to a file using PigStorage and then run
the same script reading from that file the sort is done numerically.
I've had other pig script problems which have been solved by explicitly
storing and re-reading using PigStorage.
I'm not sure what I can check in the loader (I didn't write it) to see what
might be causing this,
Any hints on how to debug this?
Thanks,
Lauren
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Lauren Blau <
lauren.b...@digitalreasoning.com> wrote:
> sorry, premature email :-).
>
> relation = key1 ,key2,orderkey1,val; //schema is
> (chararray,int,int,chararray);
>
> groupbykey = group relation by (key1,key2);
> foreach groupbykey {
> sorted = order relation by orderkey1;
> generate flatten($0), MyUDF(sorted);
> }
>
> I notice that when the 'sorted' values arrive in my UDF, they are sorted
> lexically, not numerically. I checked the schema on the way in and
> orderkey1 is definitely an int.
>
> Is there any way to force the order by into a numeric sort?
>
> Thanks,
> Lauren
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Lauren Blau <
> lauren.b...@digitalreasoning.com> wrote:
>
>> I have the following foreach:
>>
>> foo := foreach bar {
>>
>>
>
