As HAWQ has matured, the introduction of the Pluggable storage formats is giving users two methods to access external data. Is the project at a point where we can advise the community that we will recommend the use of the Pluggable storage format instead of PXF? I believe this was discussed in a thread earlier in the year but I haven't seen any further discussion or action plan of action for it.
I suggest we recommend HAWQ community users start the migration and upon graduation the project should indicate we will stop supporting PXF in favor of the Pluggable storage formats. Thoughts? Depending on feedback, I would like to put this to a vote for the dev community's consideration. email ref: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3a1e5c358bc0b0ecf04d49e38979d6bf0ae21e3a56188d34986fc8a5@%3Cdev.hawq.apache.org%3E For reference, PXF is also in use and under active development in another open source project: Greenplum Database ( https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/tree/5X_STABLE/gpAux/extensions/pxf ) and depends on the PXF server-side components that exist in HAWQ’s source tree. Thanks, -=e
