Errata
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| Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other Digital Version | http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001811/ch01.html#pig_hello_world | "Input" is now a reserved word in Pig; this example uses it as the name of an array and crashes everything, on a beginner's very first test script! |
Gavin Leech | Sep 14, 2016 |
| Page 20 United States |
In the Grunt example, it explains you can reuse the same alias and Pig will take the last instance of the line you enter, but in the example, |
Eric Kangas | Jul 23, 2013 | |
| Page 51 First paragraph of the User Defined Functions section |
"Much of the power of Pig lies in its ability to let users combine irs operators with their own or others’ code via UDFs" phrase seems to have a typo in "irs", which should be "its". |
David Faria | Jul 23, 2015 | |
| Printed | Page 84 Figure 7-4 |
second to the bottom box: grpd: CoGroup -> avgdiv: ForEach |
Anonymous | Feb 10, 2014 |
| Page 168 4th paragraph (code example) |
The example gives the parameter to HBaseStorage as 'user_info:name, user_info:email, links:*' however this function splits on just a whitespace, so the commas shouldn't be there. |
Barnaby Gray | Nov 16, 2011 |