i have opened a jira ticket to trace this issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KYLIN-769
next time you can directly create an issue and we can discuss over jira tickets. On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:41 AM, hongbin ma <[email protected]> wrote: > i remember we had other customers having same problem when we're back in > the 0.6 versions, and back at that time building an empty segment was > possible(with no "no dictionary issue"). In 0.7 versions we refactored job > build engine and we might have failed to consider such scenarios. > > In short, your requirement is theoretically feasible, however we'll need > to further check why it's blocking. > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:03 PM, dong wang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As we know, currently, if we select a date range to build the cube and >> there is no data for this segment, the build process will fail due to no >> values for the dictionary, however, image a frequent case that at the >> beginning of a project, the data is prepared by other teams ONLY with the >> latest several days or months, but we actually want to fill the data in >> the >> cube from the beginning of 2 years ago and build the cube segment by >> segment by each month, since lack of the previous old data of the earlier >> months, currently, we have to produce some fake data with specified >> requirement for the earlier months and build those segments, which >> sometimes is really a hard,tired, and time-consuming work >> >> thus, can we make the build process successful even though the data for >> that month is empty, and just leave these segments empty, then, at the end >> of the project, all the data may be ready, and we can "REFRESH" the >> earlier >> months to fill the data~ >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > *Bin Mahone | 马洪宾* > Apache Kylin: http://kylin.io > Github: https://github.com/binmahone > -- Regards, *Bin Mahone | 马洪宾* Apache Kylin: http://kylin.io Github: https://github.com/binmahone
