Hi John,

Thanks for the reply. I'm using fastbit 1.3.0.

-gaurav

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:37 AM, K. John Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Gaurav,
>
> Thanks for the interest in FastBit.  Looks like there might be some
> issue with the reading of text fields.  I will need some time to look
> into this further.  I will let you know as soon as I able to determine
> the source of the problem.
>
> In the mean time, would you mind tell me which version of FastBit you
> are using?
>
> John
>
>
> On 7/2/12 10:40 AM, Gaurav Agarwal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> (first of all thank you for creating such a useful tool!!)
>>
>> I am an absolute beginner to FastBit; I am playing with fastbit to get
>> an initial understanding. I am noticing something weird which I cannot
>> seem to understand:
>> When I use ardea to load a csv file into fastbit's columnar format, I
>> sometimes see a .msk file being created for the last column. I cannot
>> understand why is this file being created only for last column.
>> Reading the help pages, it appears that this file will be created for
>> columns having 'null' values but the file I'm trying to load
>> definitely does not have 'null' values. The file has just 5 rows and 3
>> columns.
>>
>> Here is the console output of what I'm doing- (any insight will be
>> greatly appreciated)
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Gauravs-MacBook-Pro:tests gaurav$ cat test.csv
>> 1,a,p
>> 2,b,q
>> 3,c,r
>> 4,d,s
>> 5,e,t
>>
>> Gauravs-MacBook-Pro:tests gaurav$ ardea -d tmp -m "a:int, b:text,
>> c:text" -t test.csv
>> ardea: verbose level 0
>> Will attempt to parse 1 CSV file
>> test.csv
>>  with the following column names and types
>> a:int, b:text, c:text
>>
>>
>> ardea to read CSV file test.csv ...
>> ardea read 5 rows from test.csv
>>
>> Gauravs-MacBook-Pro:tests gaurav$ ls tmp/
>> -part.txtabcc.msk
>> Gauravs-MacBook-Pro:tests gaurav$ cat tmp/-part.txt
>> # meta data for data partition tmp written by ibis::tafel::write on
>> Mon Jul  2 23:07:16 2012
>>
>> BEGIN HEADER
>> Name = tmp
>> Description = ardea -d tmp -m a:int, b:text, c:text -t test.csv
>> Number_of_rows = 5
>> Number_of_columns = 3
>> Timestamp = 1341250636
>> END HEADER
>>
>> Begin Column
>> name = a
>> data_type = INT
>> End Column
>>
>> Begin Column
>> name = b
>> data_type = TEXT
>> index=none
>> End Column
>>
>> Begin Column
>> name = c
>> data_type = TEXT
>> index=none
>> End Column
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> gaurav
>>
>>
>>
>>
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