CDH 3 Release Notes

The following lists all Apache Pig Jiras included in CDH 3 that are not included in the Apache Pig base version 0.8.1. The pig-0.8.1+28.26.CHANGES.txt file lists all changes included in CDH 3. The patch for each change can be found in the cloudera/patches directory in the release tarball.

Changes Not In Apache Pig 0.8.1

CDH

Bug

[DISTRO-223] - Pig conf dir symlink incorrectly established

Improvement

[DISTRO-258] - Publish pig-unit jar with version synchronized with pig.jar to maven

Pig

Bug

[PIG-1866] - Dereference a bag within a tuple does not work
[PIG-2262] - AvroStorage dependencies are missing from the release tarball
[PIG-2202] - AvroStorage doesn't work with Avro 1.5.1
[PIG-2195] - AvroStorage fails to STORE when LOADing via PigStorage
[PIG-1890] - Fix piggybank unit test TestAvroStorage
[PIG-2219] - Pig tests fail if ${user.home}/pigtest/conf does not already exist
[PIG-1508] - Make 'docs' target (forrest) work with Java 1.6

Improvement

[PIG-2240] - Allow any compression codec to be specified in AvroStorage
[PIG-1748] - Add load/store function AvroStorage for avro data
[PIG-1749] - Update Pig parser so that function arguments can contain newline characters
[PIG-1769] - Consistency for HBaseStorage
[PIG-1889] - bin/pig should pick up HBase configuration from HBASE_CONF_DIR

Test

[PIG-1913] - Use a file for excluding tests