[jira] Created: (PIG-490) Combiner not used when group elements referred to in tuple notation instead of flatten.

["Alan Gates (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Combiner not used when group elements referred to in tuple notation instead of flatten.
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                 Key: PIG-490
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-490
             Project: Pig
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: types_branch
            Reporter: Alan Gates
             Fix For: types_branch


Given a query like:

{code}
A = load 'myfile';
B = group A by ($0, $1);
C = foreach B generate group.$0, group.$1, COUNT(A);
{code}

The combiner will not be invoked.  But if the last line is changed to:

{code}
C = foreach B generate flatten(group), COUNT(A);
{code}

it will be.  The reason for the discrepancy is because the CombinerOptimizer checks that all of the projections are simple.  If not, it does not use the combiner.  group.$0 is not a simple projection, so this is failed.  However, this is a common enough case that the CombinerOptimizer should detect it and still use the combiner. 

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