Conventions for the syntax and code examples in the Pig Latin Reference Manual are described here.

THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE. Please use Pig Latin documentation at http://hadoop.apache.org/pig/docs/r0.7.0/piglatin_ref1.html Note: For Pig 0.2.0 or later, some content on this page may no longer be applicable. So you want to learn Pig Latin. Welcome! Lets begin with the data types. Data Types Every piece of data in Pig has one of these four types: A Data Atom is a simple atomic data value. It is store