Drill used to create such empty parquet files, but we would get an
exception when we try to query them (DRILL-3635
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3635>).

Drill's current behavior when you do a CTAS with a LIMIT 0 query is to not
write anything to disk, then when you try to query the table you would get
a "table not found" error message.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Khurram Faraaz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Currently in Drill 1.7.0 we do not support,
>   - the creation of empty parquet files.
>   - and we see an Exception when empty parquet file is queried using Drill
>
> Should we support the creation of empty parquet file that just has the
> metadata information in the parquet footer and no actual data (consider the
> CTAS case that uses a LIMIT 0 query)
>
> Once such an empty parquet file is created, Drill should also be able to
> query that parquet file, and report to user that there are no rows to
> return.
>
> Thanks,
> Khurram
>



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