On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Charles Givre <cgi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I’ll weigh in here. IMHO, Drill’s schema discovery features are > excellent, but what would be nice is if Drill could: > 1. Accept hints or directives for the schema > 2. Remember these hints if the file doesn’t change. > 3. Allow these hints to be applied to a directory of files. > This might be better phrased as "allow the hints for files to be combined to form hints for an entire directory". > Therefore, I do think it would be useful for Drill to have some sort of > metastore which would enable Drill to remember previously defined schemata > so that you don’t have to do it over and over again. Metastore is good. *Centralized* metastore is transcendentally bad.
