Here's my progress in the effort of breaking up the PDataType enum. https://github.com/ndimiduk/phoenix/commits/WIP-DataType
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote: > Heya, > > I'd like to start a conversation around the idea of user-defined types. I > think this is a very powerful point of extension for a database and will > help foster the growing community around Phoenix. It will also facilitate > enhanced interoperability between Phoenix and other HBase applications. > > I've started work on a patch to bust the PDataType enum. Rather than a > fixed set of types, PDataType becomes an interface with the various > implementations. Probably the next step would be to extend the grammar to > support new type names and constants. After that, adding a syntax for > registering types at runtime. > > Right now this is an experiment. I'm curious if there's interest for this > kind of thing in Phoenix. I draw inspiration from the extensibility of > PostgreSQL, with a notable extension being PostGIS. As an example, I'd love > to see this feature working such that we can define a Phoenix schema over > an existing OpenTSDB table. It'll take some work to get there, but I think > it's worth while to help folks migrate from existing HBase schema over to > Phoenix. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Nick >
