Attention!!!: This is an important design decision. Within 24 hours if nobody replies, I will assume option (1) to keep the work going.
Pi On 5/20/08, pi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do we handle untyped executions? > > There are two ways:- > > 1. Stick dummy schema of ByteArrays in LOLoad. This way is a bit ugly but > very simple to do. Bad things: 1) This enforces maximum tuple arity for > untyped execution. 2) We also have to carry a number of schema fields to > downstream operators. > > 2. Implement all LOs to support null schema. This is more clean but > requires a bit more work. I still see some LOs like LOUnion that will die > immediately in getSchema() if one of the inputs have a null schema. > > I am more tempted to do (2) just because I want it to be clean but we could > do (1) first if we want to get the whole thing done quickly. > What about other people's opinion? > > Pi >
