Rohini, I see your point. One followup question: it's possible for the result of a UDF to be constant and not dependent on the tuples of each record, right? Is Pig able to make such a determination in this case and push the pushdown such UDF results to load?
Thanks, Jeff On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Rohini Palaniswamy <rohini.adi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The filter push down to LoadFunc happens on the front end before the job > launch and the UDF is still not evaluated then. So you need to have > constants in your filter condition. > > Logical plan is internal to pig and will never be exposed. Refer > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3199 > > Regards, > Rohini > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jeff Yuan <quaintena...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks! Regarding 1), where there is a UDF in the filter step on a >> partition field. The UDF is not first evaluated before and then the >> result passed to the load function? >> >> A separate question: In a LoadFunc, is there a way to get a reference >> to the logical query plan? >> >> Thanks again. >> >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Rohini Palaniswamy >> <rohini.adi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Jeff, >> > >> > 1) It should not. If it does push, then it is a bug in pig. >> > >> > 2) I think it should be fine. >> > >> > 3) Look at PColFilterExtractor and PartitionFilterOptimizer >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Rohini >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Jeff Yuan <quaintena...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I am writing a loader for a storage format, which partitions by a >> >> particular field in the record. So I would like to implement something >> >> which can push down filters on the partitioned field so that the >> >> record reader does not need to read files that are outside the >> >> filtered range. In the interface "LoadMetadata", the >> >> "getPartitionKeys" and "setPartitionFilter" functions seem to support >> >> what I need (where Pig should pass the filtering expression on the >> >> declared partition keys to "setPartitionFilter", but I have a couple >> >> of questions. I'm going to reference the following example, where >> >> timestamp is the partition key. >> >> >> >> a = load 'stored_data' using CustomLoader(); >> >> b = filter a by timestamp = CUSTOM_UDF(date, month); >> >> >> >> 1. Would partitioning work in this case where the partition key filter >> >> includes a UDF? >> >> >> >> 2. Does the partition statement need to be directly after the load >> >> statement? What I mean is, if I declare a variable c between a and b >> >> which does some other operation on a, will Pig pass the filter >> >> expression of b when loading a? >> >> >> >> 3. Can you point out roughly where this "setPartitionFilter" function >> >> is called in Pig code during the load process? I couldn't seem to find >> >> it through a search of the Pig source. >> >> >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> >>
