LOWER

[Russell Jurney <ru...@gmail.com>]

Is it me, or is it weird that builtins like LOWER only work in lowercase?

pairs = FOREACH flat GENERATE lower(from) AS from, lower(to) AS to, date;

2012-02-04 17:57:53,851 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt -
ERROR 1070: Could not resolve lower using imports: [,
org.apache.pig.builtin., org.apache.pig.impl.builtin.]


I don't like.  I have taken a moral oauth to move my Pig to lowercase, and
this is messing it up.

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Re: LOWER

[Aniket Mokashi <an...@gmail.com>]

I think pig UDFs are just classnames (case sensitive, LOWER is all capitals
in built-in). Are you suggesting to add something like function registry to
pig? That would be a good idea. As a workaround (or solution), we have
pigrc and pigbootup to rename functions.

Thanks,
Aniket

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Russell Jurney <ru...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Is it me, or is it weird that builtins like LOWER only work in lowercase?
>
> pairs = FOREACH flat GENERATE lower(from) AS from, lower(to) AS to, date;
>
> 2012-02-04 17:57:53,851 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt -
> ERROR 1070: Could not resolve lower using imports: [,
> org.apache.pig.builtin., org.apache.pig.impl.builtin.]
>
>
> I don't like.  I have taken a moral oauth to move my Pig to lowercase, and
> this is messing it up.
>
> --
> Russell Jurney
> twitter.com/rjurney
> russell.jurney@gmail.com
> datasyndrome.com
>



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