I'm looking into passing information on how to interpret a file through the select clause in Drill. Something along the lines of: *select * from dfs.`default`.`/path/to/file/something.psv?type=text&delimiter=|`;* (In this example, we want to specify a specific delimiter, but that would apply to any *type* of format)
Which would allow to read a file without having to centrally configure formats: https://drill.apache.org/docs/querying-plain-text-files/ Which makes it easier to try to read an existing file. Typically once the user has found the proper settings, they would update the central configuration. thoughts? -- Julien
