[jira] [Commented] (PIG-1420) Make CONCAT act on all fields of a tuple, instead of just the first two fields of a tuple

["Russell Jurney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Russell Jurney commented on PIG-1420:
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Can someone advise on fixing this? I see getArgToFuncMapping in EvalFunc class, not sure where to apply the fix.
                
> Make CONCAT act on all fields of a tuple, instead of just the first two fields of a tuple
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-1420
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1420
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: impl
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.0
>            Reporter: Russell Jurney
>            Assignee: Russell Jurney
>              Labels: five, high
>             Fix For: 0.8.0
>
>         Attachments: addconcat2.patch, PIG-1420.2.patch
>
>   Original Estimate: 24h
>  Remaining Estimate: 24h
>
> org.apache.pig.builtin.CONCAT (which acts on DataByteArray's internally) and org.apache.pig.builtin.StringConcat (which acts on Strings internally), both act on the first two fields of a tuple.  This results in ugly nested CONCAT calls like:
> CONCAT(CONCAT(A, ' '), B)
> The more desirable form is:
> CONCAT(A, ' ', B)
> This change will be backwards compatible, provided that no one was relying on the fact that CONCAT ignores fields after the first two in a tuple.  This seems a reasonable assumption to make, or at least a small break in compatibility for a sizable improvement.

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