Hi John, Thanks so much for your quick answer. Really appreciate it. To make sure I understand, does it mean I have to create the -part.txt file myself (manually)? Do you happen to have a script that somehow generates the -part.txt file when the user already has the files in binary format. Because I'm talking about cases where I have few hundred columns and its really nearly impossible to generate a file manually.
Any help in this regard? Thanks, faisal On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:35 PM, K. John Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Faisal, > > Thanks for your interest in FastBit. If you have the data already in > binary format (for the machine you are running on), then you need to > put the data files into a directory and place a file named '-part.txt' > to tell FastBit the data types of the files. Another thing to note is > that the file names are taken to be the column names (and the case of > the file name must match the case used in '-part.txt'). A directory > is considered a partition of a data table, and a data table could have > any number of data partitions. > > The file <http://lbl.gov/~kwu/fastbit/doc/dataLoading.html> has a > little bit more details. > > Hope this helps. > > John > > > On 7/27/12 4:10 PM, S M Faisal wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to FastBit. I see that there are programs for preprocessing > > and formatting data so that FastBit can be used. But what if my data > > is already in column files in binary format? That is, my data is > > already stored as one file per column and in binary format. All that > > is missing is the -part.txt file. > > > > How should I proceed? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------- > > faisal > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FastBit-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users > > > -- ----------------------------------- faisal
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