Re: Controlling Illustrate's output

[Koji Noguchi <kn...@oath.com.INVALID>]

Hi Ronald,

Sorry for the late response.

> Is there a way to control the number of records illustrate produces?
>
I'm afraid not.

Illustrate is a strong feature that has not been supported yet on
Pig-on-tez or Pig-on-spark.
We need to revive this effort and start looking at this feature again.

> Also, is there an easier way to get the data programmatically (i.e. not as
textual tables to stdout)?
>
As part of Illustrate?  No.

If you have suggestion on how we can make this feature better, appreciate
if you could file a new jira.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/PIG

Thanks.

Koji





On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Ronald Green <gr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there a way to control the number of records illustrate produces?
>
> Also, is there an easier way to get the data programmatically (i.e. not as
> textual tables to stdout)?
>
> Thanks!
>