If we do PInteger, etc., do we have to make DInteger for Drill types,
IInteger for Impala types and TInteger for Trafodion types?
St.Ack

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, I've done as you suggested with PInteger, PFloat, &c and cleaned out
> all the funky java.lang import handling. This has brought the patch down in
> size significantly. I can probably reduce the patch size further still if I
> rename the instances, like Binary.INSTANCE to BINARY and use static imports
> everywhere the enum was used previously. I've also got the full test suite
> passing. My use of equals vs == is still inconsistent, but I'm using
> singletons everywhere, so this isn't causing any problems. I plan to clean
> that up next. I've squished the branch into a single patch and pushed to my
> github. Please have a look if you find a few more minutes. I guess it's
> time to open a JIRA now too.
>
>
> https://github.com/ndimiduk/phoenix/commit/f97047b0f3e2cc7c4f60625b9eda88987156af92
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:52 PM, James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > +1 on using PInteger, PLong, etc. to disambiguate.
> >
> > +1 on limiting to purely structural changes initially.
> >
> > If it can be b/w compatible (with all tests passing), I'd vote to put
> > it in 4.x and master. The longer we can keep 4.1 and master in sync,
> > the better.
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:11 AM, James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Wow, this is fantastic, Nick. Big +1.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Thanks for the enthusiasm James :)
> > >
> > > You're welcome to coopt and use the type-system branch in the Apache
> > >> Phoenix git repo if that's helpful.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I'd forgotten about that one. Will keep it in mind.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on how we can manage backward compatibility? Types are
> > >> identified by their ordinal position in the enum right now (that's
> > >> what the client typically sends to the server). If we can maintain
> > >> that, we might be able to pull it off.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I've been able to preserve the enum ordering, at least in theory. I'm
> > still
> > > working through failing tests.
> > >
> > > By breaking it up the way you've done, we should be able to get rid of
> > >> much of the copy/paste code that was required because we couldn't have
> > >> intermediate base types. For example, we can introduce a BaseArrayType
> > >> and move the array code their (it's more or less identical for all the
> > >> array sub types). The same would apply to numeric types Byte, Short,
> > >> Integer, and Long: we could have a BaseNumberType and remove a bunch
> > >> of duplicate code.
> > >
> > >
> > > Right. For now, I'm trying to keep the patch as limited as possible to
> > > structural changes. We can go back after and refactor, reduce
> > duplication,
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > Minor nit: it'd be nice if the type class names didn't conflict with
> > >>
> > > the Java built-in types so that we don't have to fully qualify them on
> > >> usage.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I've run into a couple bugs because of this already, it seems to have
> > made
> > > things fragile. OTOH, I didn't want to introduce PInteger, PLong, &c.
> > Maybe
> > > I'll go back to that, unless you have a better suggestion.
> > >
> > > It'd be great to get this in sooner rather than later, as it's going
> > >> to be tricky to keep your branch in sync with the Apache ones given
> > >> how all encompassing the change is. Any thoughts on this?
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, as would I, at least with the big "bust it up" patch. Right now
> I'm
> > > working against master. Is there any reason I should be back porting it
> > to
> > > 3.x or 4.x?
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> > 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 <ndimi...@gmail.com>
> > >> 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
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
>

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