Hi, DRILL-1512 only works for reading Avro files off a filesystem such as HDFS. As far as I know the convert_from() function only supports JSON at the moment.
Hope that helps. - Andrew > On May 29, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Vince Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does Drill have any support for Avro stored in HBase columns? IOW, could I > do something like this, substituting Avro for JSON? > > select convert_from(row_key, 'UTF8') as row_key, > convert_from(convert_from(t.cf1.data, 'UTF8'), 'JSON') as data from > `ticks` t limit 1; > > > I see some JIRAs around Avro, including DRILL-1512 which talks about the > addition of an Avro > RecordReader in 0.9, but I do not know what this actually means. Is it a > short path between a RecordReader and the CONVERT_FROM function? > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-1512
