On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 9:43 PM, Paul Rogers <par0...@yahoo.com.invalid>
wrote:

> Great discussion. Really appreciate the insight from the Drill users!
>
> To Ted's points: the simplest possible solution is to allow a table
> function to express types. Just making stuff up:
>
> SELECT a FROM schema(myTable, (a: INT))
>

Why not just allow cast to be pushed down to the reader?

Why invent new language features?

Or, really ugly, a session option:
>
> ALTER SESSION SET schema.myTable="a: INT"
>

These are a big problem.

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