This is as true as the renaming is not needed so I guess the PR owner will
decide ;). Thanks for the clarification.


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2018-02-03 18:36 GMT+01:00 Reuven Lax <re...@google.com>:

> Oh I agree 100%, however I'm just saying that we shouldn't ask the SQL
> effort to halt just because the schema effort overlaps. There's at least
> one other pending PR on this class (to do with automatic POJO generation).
>
> Also the name of the Record/Row class is somewhat independent of
> everything else in the schema discussion, and doesn't really need to block
> on that. That's why I started this thread. there was enough discussion on
> the PR itself that I felt that the community should be aware, as I assume
> not everyone follows all PR discussions :)
>
> Reuven
>
> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I know Reuven, but when you check what it does, it is exactly the same
>> and the current work will be to replace by the schema work so better to
>> avoid a round trip of work which will be throw away in any case. Also note
>> that current structure is flat and very limiting for modern SQL so the
>> alignment of both will be beneficial to beam in any case so better to
>> ensure all parts of the projects move in the same direction instead of
>> requiring yet another layer of conversion, no?
>>
>>
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>> 2018-02-03 16:32 GMT+01:00 Reuven Lax <re...@google.com>:
>>
>>> This is a core part of SQL which is ongoing.
>>>
>>> On Feb 2, 2018 11:45 PM, "Romain Manni-Bucau" <rmannibu...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Shouldnt the discussion on schema which has a direct impact on this
>>>> generic container be closed before any action on this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le 3 févr. 2018 01:09, "Ankur Chauhan" <an...@malloc64.com> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> ++
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 1:33 PM Rafael Fernandez <rfern...@google.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Very strong +1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 1:24 PM Reuven Lax <re...@google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We're looking at renaming the BeamRecord class
>>>>>>> <https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/4550>, that was used for
>>>>>>> columnar data. There was sufficient discussion on the naming, that I 
>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>> to make sure the dev list is aware of naming plans here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BeamRecord is a columnar, field-based record. Currently it's used by
>>>>>>> BeamSQL, and the plan is to use it for schemas as well. "Record" is a
>>>>>>> confusing name for this class, as all elements in the Beam model are
>>>>>>> referred to as "records," whether or not they have schemas. "Row" is a 
>>>>>>> much
>>>>>>> clearer name.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There was a lot of discussion whether to name this BeamRow or just
>>>>>>> plain Row (in the org.apache.beam.values namespace). The argument in 
>>>>>>> favor
>>>>>>> of BeamRow was so that people aren't forced to qualify their type names 
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> the case of a conflict with a Row from another package. The argument in
>>>>>>> favor of Row was that it's a better name, it's in the Beam namespace
>>>>>>> anyway, and it's what the rest of the world (Cassandra, Hive, Spark, 
>>>>>>> etc.)
>>>>>>> calls similar classes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> RIght not consensus on the PR is leaning to Row. If you feel
>>>>>>> strongly, please speak up :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reuven
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>
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