Github user jackylk commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-carbondata/pull/659#discussion_r110810313 --- Diff: core/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/core/datastore/SegmentTaskIndexStore.java --- @@ -338,14 +339,28 @@ private synchronized Object addAndGetSegmentLock(String segmentId) { * @throws IOException */ private AbstractIndex loadBlocks(TaskBucketHolder taskBucketHolder, - List<TableBlockInfo> tableBlockInfoList, AbsoluteTableIdentifier tableIdentifier) + List<TableBlockInfo> tableBlockInfoList, AbsoluteTableIdentifier tableIdentifier, + TableSegmentUniqueIdentifier tableSegmentUniqueIdentifier) throws IOException { // all the block of one task id will be loaded together // so creating a list which will have all the data file meta data to of one task List<DataFileFooter> footerList = CarbonUtil .readCarbonIndexFile(taskBucketHolder.taskNo, taskBucketHolder.bucketNumber, tableBlockInfoList, tableIdentifier); - AbstractIndex segment = new SegmentTaskIndex(); + + if (null == tableSegmentUniqueIdentifier.getSegmentProperties()) { + // create a metadata details + // this will be useful in query handling + // all the data file metadata will have common segment properties we + // can use first one to get create the segment properties + SegmentProperties segmentProperties = + new SegmentProperties(footerList.get(0).getColumnInTable(), --- End diff -- I think the hashmap approach is OK. You can keep a hashmap in this class and store the mapping from a key (calculated from schema) to the SegmentProperties object.
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