Github user jinfengni commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/906#discussion_r135710183
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exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/physical/impl/ScanBatch.java
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@@ -329,9 +326,11 @@ public TypedFieldId getValueVectorId(SchemaPath path) {
@VisibleForTesting
public static class Mutator implements OutputMutator {
- /** Whether schema has changed since last inquiry (via #isNewSchema}).
Is
- * true before first inquiry. */
- private boolean schemaChanged = true;
+ /** Flag keeping track whether top-level schema has changed since last
inquiry (via #isNewSchema}).
+ * It's initialized to false, or reset to false after #isNewSchema or
after #clear, until a new value vector
+ * or a value vector with different type is added to fieldVectorMap.
+ **/
+ private boolean schemaChanged;
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No comments with respect to "flag vs counter". But the flag is in the
existing code, and the patch I have simply 1) change the initial value of flag,
2) add comments.
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