Oops, mistake in my notes. For the second item, I meant DRILL-4280, not DRILL-1950.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Zelaine Fong <zf...@maprtech.com> wrote: > Attendees: Paul, Padma, Sorabh, Boaz, Sudheesh, Vitalii, Roman, Dave O, > Arina, Laurent, Kunal, Zelaine > > I had to leave the hangout at 10:30, so my notes only cover the discussion > up till then. > > 1) Variable width decimal support - Dave O > > Currently Drill only supports fixed width byte array storage of decimals. > Dave has submitted a pull request for DRILL-4834 to add support for storing > decimals with variable width byte arrays. Eventually, variable width can > replace fixed width, but the pull request doesn't cover that. Dave would > like someone in the community to review his pull request. > > 2) 1.9 release - Sudheesh > > Sudheesh is collecting pull requests for the release. Some have been > reviewed and are waiting to be merged. Sudheesh plans to commit a batch > this Wed and another this Friday. He's targeting having a release > candidate build available next Monday. > > Laurent asked about Sudheesh's pull request for DRILL-1950. He asked > whether thought had been given to supporting newer Drill clients with older > Drill servers. Sudheesh indicated that doing this would entail a breaking > change in the protocol, and the plan was to defer doing this for a later > release where we may want to make other breaking changes like this. >
