vachan-shetty commented on a change in pull request #15185:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/15185#discussion_r688600748



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File path: sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery.py
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@@ -1841,15 +2118,29 @@ class ReadFromBigQuery(PTransform):
     on GCS, and then reads from each produced file. File format is Avro by
     default.
 
+  .. warning::
+      DATETIME columns are parsed as strings in the fastavro library. As a
+      result, such columns will be converted to Python strings instead of 
native
+      Python DATETIME types.
+
   Args:
+    method: The method to use to read from BigQuery. It may be EXPORT or
+      DIRECT_READ. EXPORT invokes a BigQuery export request
+      (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/exporting-data). DIRECT_READ 
reads
+      directly from BigQuery storage using the BigQuery Read API
+      (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/storage). If
+      unspecified, the default is currently EXPORT.
+    use_fastavro (bool): If method is `DIRECT_READ` and :data:`True`, the

Review comment:
       Renamed the flag.
   
   I intend to remove the non-fastavro parsing in a follow-up PR where the 
Storage API source and the core avroio source are combined together. And also 
add integration tests in the follow-up.




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