seddonm1 commented on pull request #9108: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9108#issuecomment-755682309
Thanks @jorgecarleitao and @ovr My view would be to elect an initial dialect (my preference being Postgres - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-string.html which supports ANSI + what appear to be sensible additions), document that in the readme and assess any function PRs against that. The secondary benefit is that we can point to the Postgres (or other) docs for usage instructions. The risk of not making the decision early risks what happened with Spark SQL where [functions](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/sql/index.html) were added seemingly ad-hoc making their usage very difficult and no clear feature matrix available. I am happy to volunteer to update documentation if we can reach the consensus on dialect. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
