I've added some technical details around PXF to the "Document HAWQ to PXF APIs" task: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-1234
This was helpful in troubleshooting an issue so I figured the community would find value in it as well in support of Roman's idea about a standalone client. -Kyle On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 6:29 PM Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Shivram Mani <shivram.m...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Currently the only documented interface for using PXF is using HAWQ > > queries. The current API reference doc > > < > http://hdb.docs.pivotal.io/210/hawq/pxf/PXFExternalTableandAPIReference.html > > > > is > > from the standpoint of a PXF plugin developer to a new data format, and > not > > quite intended for a client side user. > > The javadocs <http://hawq.incubator.apache.org/docs/pxf/javadoc/> > published > > isn't going to be your API quick starter guide either. > > > > So yes, please do file a hawq JIRA against PXF component requesting this. > > This will help external clients/db engines to leverage PXF API's > direclty. > > Thanks Shivram! I've filed an umbrella JIRA. It would be awesome if those > who are interested in this could contribute: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HAWQ-1233 > > Thanks, > Roman. > -- *Kyle Dunn | Data Engineering | Pivotal* Direct: 303.905.3171 <3039053171> | Email: kd...@pivotal.io
