richardstartin commented on pull request #7565: URL: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pull/7565#issuecomment-941097749
Providing SQL functions like that to empower the user would be very interesting, but tangential to what I want to achieve. The motivation for this draft is the ability to eventually support columns which contain typed entity-attribute-values for handling semi-structured data and the real blocker is that a `DataSource` _must_ have a single `DataType`, rather than determine it on the fly when dealing with semi-structured columns. Obviously, a typed EAV column isn't really in the spirit of Pinot's columnar architecture, and determining types row by row has a cost, but it opens up use cases with semi-structured data. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
