dzamo commented on pull request #2359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2359#issuecomment-983645762
Dear PR author and reviewers.
This is a generic message to say that we would like to merge this PR in time
for the 1.20 release. Currently we're targeting a master branch fre
dzamo commented on pull request #2359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2359#issuecomment-979755114
Copy that @paul-rogers, I [have incorporated your advice above into the
Drill 2.0 wiki
page](https://github.com/apache/drill/wiki/Drill-2.0-Proposal#project-structure-packaging-and-
dzamo commented on pull request #2359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2359#issuecomment-964848311
> The bigger implication of having a `columns` array vs `field_n` is when a
user starts with `SELECT *` queries. It makes it harder for BI tools to gather
schema metadata and it als
dzamo commented on pull request #2359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2359#issuecomment-963148567
> * Sometimes the PDF reader does not read tables perfectly and you get a
mix of found headers and not found headers, so that's one reason I took that
approach.
This consider
dzamo commented on pull request #2359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2359#issuecomment-962903289
@cgivre Instead of generating `field_0`, `field_1` when no column names can
be determined, is it possible to generate a `columns` array to be accessed
using `columns[0], columns[1],
dzamo commented on pull request #2359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2359#issuecomment-962895343
@paul-rogers, right, okay it's an expressiveness thing here rather than a
scale thing. The expressiveness of Drill SQL ∪ Drill format config JSON falls
well short of that of a gene
dzamo commented on pull request #2359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2359#issuecomment-962569638
> The problem is, a tool that tries to be both a desert topping and a floor
wax (let's see how old the readers are with this one), ends up being good at
neither.
@paul-roger
dzamo commented on pull request #2359:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2359#issuecomment-960472017
@cgivre @paul-rogers, my 2c. I guess some partial precedents for a format
plugin like this are ones like format-image and format-esri (as noted), though
those do only go after the
