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Frank McQuillan commented on MADLIB-1001:
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That's a good suggestion. To be consistent with the way we do it elsewhere in
MADlib (e.g., col_ind_var parameter in elastic net
http://madlib.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/group__grp__elasticnet.html), I
would suggest:
NULL -- partition, time and session columns
* -- all columns
'x, y, z, ...' -- just the columns you want
Interface updated to reflect this
> Sessionization - Phase 2 (output controls)
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MADLIB-1001
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MADLIB-1001
> Project: Apache MADlib
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Module: Utilities
> Reporter: Frank McQuillan
> Assignee: Nandish Jayaram
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: gsoc2016, starter
> Fix For: v1.9.1
>
>
> Story
> As a data scientist, I want to perform session reconstruction on my data set,
> so that I can prepare for input into other algorithms like path functions, or
> predictive analytics algorithms.
> This is a follow on to
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MADLIB-909
> to add optional output controls.
> Details
> Proposed interface changes:
> {code}
> sessionize (
> source_table,
> output_table,
> partition_expr,
> order_expr,
> time_stamp,
> time_out,
> output_all_cols, -- new
> create_view -- new
> )
> {code}
> where
> output_all_cols
> BOOLEAN default: FALSE. Controls which columns are output. If FALSE,
> only the partition, time stamp and the generated session ID columns are
> output. (The assumption is that the partition columns together with the time
> stamp column will be sufficient to perform a join with the input table.) If
> TRUE, all columns from the source table are output in addition to the
> generated session ID.
> create_view
> BOOLEAN default: TRUE. Determines whether to create a view or
> materialize a table as output. If you only needed session info once, creating
> a view could be significantly faster than materializing as a table.
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