Major Description
Currently using the "OUTER" modifier in the JOIN statement is a no-op. The resuls of JOIN are always an INNER join. Now that the Pig types branch supports null values proper, the semantics of JOIN ... OUTER, ... OUTER should be corrected to do proper outer joins and populating the corresponding empty values with nulls.
Here's the example:
A = load 'a.txt' using PigStorage() as ( comment, value );
B = load 'b.txt' using PigStorage() as ( comment, value );
–
-- OUTER clause is ignored in JOIN statement and does not populat tuple with
– null values as it should. Otherwise OUTER is a meaningless no-op modifier.
–
ABOuterJoin = join A by ( comment ) outer, B by ( comment ) outer;
describe ABOuterJoin;
dump ABOuterJoin;
The file a contains:
a-only 1
ab-both 2
The file b contains:
ab-both 2
b-only 3
When you execute the script today, the dump results are:
(ab-both,2,ab-both,2)
The expected dump results should be:
(a-only,1,,)
(ab-both,2,ab-both,2)
(,,b-only,3)