Just for clarity, DRILL-4280 is a breaking-protocol change, so is the plan to defer this change to a later release, or to defer bringing back compatibility between newer clients and older servers to a later release?
Laurent On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Zelaine Fong <zf...@maprtech.com> wrote: > Oops, mistake in my notes. For the second item, I meant DRILL-4280, not > DRILL-1950. > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Zelaine Fong <zf...@maprtech.com> wrote: > > > Attendees: Paul, Padma, Sorabh, Boaz, Sudheesh, Vitalii, Roman, Dave O, > > Arina, Laurent, Kunal, Zelaine > > > > I had to leave the hangout at 10:30, so my notes only cover the > discussion > > up till then. > > > > 1) Variable width decimal support - Dave O > > > > Currently Drill only supports fixed width byte array storage of decimals. > > Dave has submitted a pull request for DRILL-4834 to add support for > storing > > decimals with variable width byte arrays. Eventually, variable width can > > replace fixed width, but the pull request doesn't cover that. Dave would > > like someone in the community to review his pull request. > > > > 2) 1.9 release - Sudheesh > > > > Sudheesh is collecting pull requests for the release. Some have been > > reviewed and are waiting to be merged. Sudheesh plans to commit a batch > > this Wed and another this Friday. He's targeting having a release > > candidate build available next Monday. > > > > Laurent asked about Sudheesh's pull request for DRILL-1950. He asked > > whether thought had been given to supporting newer Drill clients with > older > > Drill servers. Sudheesh indicated that doing this would entail a > breaking > > change in the protocol, and the plan was to defer doing this for a later > > release where we may want to make other breaking changes like this. > > >
