[PIG-1723] Need to limit the length of Pig counter names

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Richard Ding
• Reporter: Richard Ding
• Created: 13/Nov/10 01:14
• Updated: 17/Dec/10 22:46
• Resolved: 16/Nov/10 20:54

Description

Some version of Hadoop now restrict the length of the names for the counters. Pig counters (e.g. multi-input/multi-output counters) needs to take this into account so that Pig can correctly retrieve its counters.