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Gabriel Reid commented on PHOENIX-476:
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[~jamestaylor] yes, definitely looks useful for bulk loading scenarios. I'll
try to take a look at this one in the next little big, but I won't be able to
get to it right away.
It looks like the hard part (i.e. figuring out how to actually do it) is pretty
much done, so hopefully the impl work shouldn't be too bad.
> Support declaration of DEFAULT in CREATE statement
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>
> Key: PHOENIX-476
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-476
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Task
> Affects Versions: 3.0-Release
> Reporter: James Taylor
> Labels: enhancement
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> Support the declaration of a default value in the CREATE TABLE/VIEW statement
> like this:
> CREATE TABLE Persons (
> Pid int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
> LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
> FirstName varchar(255),
> Address varchar(255),
> City varchar(255) DEFAULT 'Sandnes'
> )
> To implement this, we'd need to:
> 1. add a new DEFAULT_VALUE key value column in SYSTEM.TABLE and pass through
> the value when the table is created (in MetaDataClient).
> 2. always set NULLABLE to ResultSetMetaData.columnNoNulls if a default value
> is present, since the column will never be null.
> 3. add a getDefaultValue() accessor in PColumn
> 4. for a row key column, during UPSERT use the default value if no value was
> specified for that column. This could be done in the PTableImpl.newKey method.
> 5. for a key value column with a default value, we can get away without
> incurring any storage cost. Although a little bit of extra effort than if we
> persisted the default value on an UPSERT for key value columns, this approach
> has the benefit of not incurring any storage cost for a default value.
> * serialize any default value into KeyValueColumnExpression
> * in the evaluate method of KeyValueColumnExpression, conditionally use
> the default value if the column value is not present. If doing partial
> evaluation, you should not yet return the default value, as we may not have
> encountered the the KeyValue for the column yet (since a filter evaluates
> each time it sees each KeyValue, and there may be more than one KeyValue
> referenced in the expression). Partial evaluation is determined by calling
> Tuple.isImmutable(), where false means it is NOT doing partial evaluation,
> while true means it is.
> * modify EvaluateOnCompletionVisitor by adding a visitor method for
> RowKeyColumnExpression and KeyValueColumnExpression to set
> evaluateOnCompletion to true if they have a default value specified. This
> will cause filter evaluation to execute one final time after all KeyValues
> for a row have been seen, since it's at this time we know we should use the
> default value.
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