Might make an interesting alternative, but I don't think that it suffices for all needs. In particular, there are definitely times when I don't know what columns to declare.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > Phoenix has a neat extension to SQL for declaring dynamic columns as > part of a query. This is for columns that are present in the > schema-less table but we didn’t declare them when we issued the CREATE > TABLE statement. > > http://phoenix.apache.org/dynamic_columns.html > > James Taylor is proposing adding it to Calcite’s SQL: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-493 > > Drill developers, Would this be a useful syntax extension for Drill? I > think it has some advantages over Drill's implicit, type-less columns. > > Julian >
