Yes, correct. Thanks, James
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Juan Rodríguez Hortalá < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for your answer, from that I understand that built-in functions as > described in that post are a way to extend Phoenix, but to use each new > function you should recompile and redeploy Phoenix. > > Again, thanks for the information, > > Greetings, > > Juan > > > 2014-04-06 9:49 GMT+02:00 James Taylor <[email protected]>: > > Hi Juan, >> Good question. We're definitely interested in contributions for any >> built-ins that folks think are useful, provided that they're generally >> useful and follow SQL standards. In the past we've taken these and bundled >> them in the next release of Phoenix. So please feel free to contribute. >> >> The JIRA you mentioned (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-538) >> is more about having a way for built-in functions to be dynamically loaded. >> We're open to that as well, but until coprocessors have a way of being >> "sandboxed", we'd need a way to disable the feature, as I suspect many >> companies would consider this a potential security hole (and thus want a >> way of disabling it). >> >> Thanks, >> James >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Juan Rodríguez Hortalá < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> In another message to this list, I saw a reference to >>> http://phoenix-hbase.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/how-to-add-your-own-built-in-function.html?m=1, >>> where it's shown how to create a scalar built-in function in Phoenix. I'm >>> surprised because I though UDF's were not in the roadmap, according to this >>> Jira https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-538 where it says >>> "until coprocessors have a way to run inside their own sandbox, we'd want >>> to have a way to disable this feature". I think this feature is very >>> interesting, so I'm wondering whether this built-in functions are executed >>> in the client or in the Region Servers as coprocessors. If that's the case, >>> are they running in a sandboxed environment to protect the Region Servers? >>> >>> Thanks a lot for the information, >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> >>> Juan Rodríguez Hortalá >>> >> >> >
