Yes, I was because this param value changes with every invocation, I was hoping for something more clever than creating the file at the driver level. A fine fall-back solution, though.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Steve Terrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Just off the top of my head… If you are able to pass strA as a parameter, > you should also be able to write it to a file that can be loaded in as an > alias in the Pig script. Perhaps you are looking for something more > direct? > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Norbert Burger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi folks - let's say I have incoming param which has value "strA". Is > > there a clever way to initialize an alias within Pig that contains a > single > > tuple with value "strA"? > > > > In other words, is it possible to initialize an alias? > > > > Norbert > > >
