[jira] Commented: (PIG-1606) flatten documentation does not discuss flatten of empty bag

["Olga Natkovich (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Olga Natkovich commented on PIG-1606:
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Is this even the semantics we want. I would expect a single row with an empty field.

> flatten documentation does not discuss flatten of empty bag
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-1606
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1606
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: documentation
>            Reporter: Thejas M Nair
>             Fix For: 0.9.0
>
>
> From the existing flatten documentation, it is not clear that flatten of an empty bag results in that row being discarded .
> For example the following query gives no output -
> {code}
> grunt> cat /tmp/empty.bag
> {}      1
> grunt> l = load '/tmp/empty.bag' as (b : bag{}, i : int);
> grunt> f = foreach l generate flatten(b), i;
> grunt> dump f;
> grunt>
> {code}

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