paul-rogers commented on a change in pull request #1953: Add docs for Drill
Metastore
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1953#discussion_r366680128
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+---
+title: "ANALYZE TABLE REFRESH METADATA"
+parent: "SQL Commands"
+date: 2020-01-13
+---
+
+Starting from Drill 1.17, you can store table metadata (including schema and
computed statistics) into Drill Metastore.
+This metadata will be used when querying a table for more optimal plan
creation.
+
+{% include startnote.html %}In Drill 1.17, this feature is supported for
Parquet tables only and is disabled by default.{% include endnote.html %}
+
+To enable Drill Metastore usage, the following option `metastore.enabled`
should be set to `true`, as shown:
+
+ SET `metastore.enabled` = true;
+
+Alternatively, you can enable the option in the Drill Web UI at
`http://<drill-hostname-or-ip-address>:8047/options`.
+
+## Syntax
Review comment:
(If the above is true, it raises all sorts of questions. How do we handle
conflicting types? Conflicting names (Foo, foo and FOO)? How does the user
specify that "column X is coming, when it arrives in new files, it will be of
type DECIMAL"?)
Inferring schema is good, but a human must fine tune the schema to express
intent, especially when the information is ambiguous. And, a main reason to
have a schema is to deal with ambiguous data.)
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