Hi Michael, Does this affect people who use Hive for their metadata store as well? I'm wondering if the issue is as bad as I think it is - namely that if you build up a year's worth of data, adding a field forces you to have to migrate that entire year's data.
Gary On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Cody Koeninger <c...@koeninger.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com> > wrote: > > > > > I was proposing you manually convert each different format into one > > unified format (by adding literal nulls and such for missing columns) > and > > then union these converted datasets. It would be weird to have union all > > try and do this automatically. > > > > > Sure, I was just musing on what an api for doing the merging without manual > user input should look like / do. I'll comment on the ticket, thanks for > making it >
