I don't see why you say that Drill is schema-forbidden. The Parquet reader, for instance, makes strong use of the implied schema to facilitate reading of typed data.
Likewise, the vectorized internal format is strongly typed and, as such, uses schema information. Views are another way to communicate schema information. It is true that you can't, say, view comments on fields from the command line. But I don't understand saying "schema-forbidden". On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Paul Rogers <par0...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > Here is another way to think about it. Today, Drill is "schema-forbidden": > even if I know the schema, I can't communicate that to Drill; Drill must > figure it out on its own, making the same mistakes every time on ambiguous > schemas. >
