Hi Ronald, Sorry for the late response.
> Is there a way to control the number of records illustrate produces? > I'm afraid not. Illustrate is a strong feature that has not been supported yet on Pig-on-tez or Pig-on-spark. We need to revive this effort and start looking at this feature again. > Also, is there an easier way to get the data programmatically (i.e. not as textual tables to stdout)? > As part of Illustrate? No. If you have suggestion on how we can make this feature better, appreciate if you could file a new jira. https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/PIG Thanks. Koji On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Ronald Green <green.ron...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a way to control the number of records illustrate produces? > > Also, is there an easier way to get the data programmatically (i.e. not as > textual tables to stdout)? > > Thanks! >