[jira] [Updated] (PIG-4458) Support UDFs in a FOREACH Before a Merge Join

["William Watson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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William Watson updated PIG-4458:
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    Attachment: remove_merge_join_udf_restriction.patch

> Support UDFs in a FOREACH Before a Merge Join
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>
>                 Key: PIG-4458
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4458
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: William Watson
>         Attachments: remove_merge_join_udf_restriction.patch
>
>
> Right now, the MapSideMergeValidator outright rejects any foreach that has a UDF in it:
> {code}
> private boolean isAcceptableForEachOp(Operator lo) throws LogicalToPhysicalTranslatorException {
>         if (lo instanceof LOForEach) {
>             OperatorPlan innerPlan = ((LOForEach) lo).getInnerPlan();
>             validateMapSideMerge(innerPlan.getSinks(), innerPlan);
>             return !containsUDFs((LOForEach) lo);
>         } else {
>             return false;
>         }
>     }
> {code}
> There is a TODO for this later on in that same class (inside containsUDFs):
> {code}
> // TODO (dvryaboy): in the future we could relax this rule by tracing what fields
> // are being passed into the UDF, and only refusing if the UDF is working on the
> // join key. Transforms of other fields should be ok.
> {code}
> We should do the TODO and relax this requirement or just remove it altogether



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