On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:15 AM, tim robertson wrote:
If Akira was to write his/her own Mappers, using types like IntWritable would result in it being numerically sorted right?
Yes.Or they can use the KeyFieldBasedComparator. I think if you put the following in your job conf, you'll get the right behavior.
mapred.output.key.comparator.class = org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.KeyFieldBasedComparator
mapred.text.key.comparator.options = -n -- Owen
