Hi, Kishore, Thanks for the report. We have noticed the problem also and have just checked in a fix as SVN revision 536. Please give the new version a try when you get the chance.
John On 8/7/12 3:53 PM, kishore g wrote: > Hi John, > > It always gets into interactive mode. Looks like something went wrong > with the parsing. I verified that I have the 534 version. > > Thanks, > Kishore G > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:41 PM, kishore g <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for adding this feature. I will try this and let you > know how it goes. > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:12 PM, K. John Wu <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, Kishore, > > The file examples/ibis.cpp has been updated to allow you to > specify a > name-option pair following -b, such as > > ibis -d tmp -b "a*:<binning none/>" -b "b*:<binning > nbins=12000/>" -b > "<binning prec=2/>" -b 3 > > The four -b options are used as follows > > - any column whose name match the pattern "a*" (i.e., starting > with > the letter 'a') will be indexed with indexing option <binning > none/>. > > - among the remaining columns, any column whose name match the > pattern > "b*" will be indexed with <binning nbins=12000/>. > > - all remaining columns will be index with the option <binning > prec=2/> (unless the option couldn't be applied, for example, > because > the data is string valued). > > - the option "-b 3" tells FastBit to build indexes with three > threads > (which requires enough memory to hold three different indexes > and the > corresponding raw data in memory.) > > The source code is in SVN as revision 534. Please give it a > try when > you get the chance and let us know if you encounter any problems. > > John > > > > > On 8/6/12 5:41 PM, K. John Wu wrote: > > Hi, Kishore, > > > > Thanks for the your interest in FastBit. Right now, the > fastest way > > to change the indexing option is to edit the metadata file > -part.txt. > > > > We will consider adding options to ibis.cpp to allow one to > index each > > column separately. Let us know if you want to suggest > something for > > this option. > > > > John > > > > > > On 8/6/12 5:12 PM, kishore g wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is it possible to use specify the type of index ( binning, > range, > >> equality) on a per column basis. I tried the -b option but it > >> generates the index for all columns. I have a requirement > where I will > >> be doing range query on one column and equality on others. > The range > >> query column will be sorted as well. > >> > >> I could not find this in the documentation even though it > says if an > >> index already exists it does not regenerate it unless -z > option is > >> provided, it seems to regenerate it every time for all columns. > >> > >> Thanks for the help. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Kishore G > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> FastBit-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > >> https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users > >> > _______________________________________________ > FastBit-users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users > > > _______________________________________________ FastBit-users mailing list [email protected] https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users
