So, I should be able to achieve such a union of columns by writing some C++ 
code, right?

I'm building a wrapper to do some specialized loading and queries.

I will send you an example later today.


Mark Hansen
President & Founder
Digital Brand Mine - developers of Megalytic
http://megalytic.com
http://digitalbrandmine.com

On Jun 7, 2013, at 10:40 PM, "K. John Wu" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, Mark,
> 
> We did intent -a option to create a union of the columns.  Note that
> this operation will assume the columns did not exist in the first
> table to be NULLs.
> 
> Anyway, if you have a small example you can share with us, I will take
> a look into this problem over the weekend.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On 6/3/13 8:17 PM, Mark Hansen wrote:
>> I have 2 tables: X and Y.  I want to append the into a new table Z. 
>> So, I do this:
>> 
>> ibis -a X to ./Z
>> 
>> That works fine, and Z is now identical to X.  Then, I do this:
>> 
>> ibis -a Y to ./Z
>> 
>> It seems to append the rows, but the ./Z/-part.txt file is not the
>> UNION of X and Y as I expected.  Instead, it is identical to
>> ./Y/-part.txt. The columns from both X and Y are there as files under
>> ./Z, it is just the ./Z/-part.txt which does not have all the columns.
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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