Thanks for confirming this. Good luck with your work. Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional input or questions for us.
John On 7/8/12 12:05 AM, Gaurav Agarwal wrote: > Hi John, > > This problem is resolved on the csv file I was testing. Thanks a lot > for fixing this! I'll keep you posted I encounter this elsewhere. > > -cheers, > guarav > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 3:12 AM, K. John Wu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, Gaurav, >> >> I have located the cause of the problem with unexpected mask file. A >> fix has been checked in with SVN revision 522. Please give it a try >> when you get the chance. >> >> Thanks. >> >> John >> >> >> On 7/3/12 5:58 PM, Gaurav Agarwal wrote: >>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> FastBit-users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users >>>>> >>>> >> > _______________________________________________ > FastBit-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users > _______________________________________________ FastBit-users mailing list [email protected] https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users
