+1. My preference is to have `DESCRIBE` CQL statement. Dinesh
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 11:33 AM, Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think part of being a modern database is not relying on drivers/clients > to idiomatically rebuild the schema. > > Thanks for bringing it up, Jon - huge +1 on merging (some form) of this. > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:27 AM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> I was looking through our open JIRAs and realized we hadn't merged in >> server side describe calls yet. The ticket died off a ways ago, and I >> pinged Chris about it yesterday. He's got a lot of his plate and won't be >> able to work on it anytime soon. I still think we should include this in >> 4.0. >> >> From a technical standpoint, It doesn't say much on the ticket after Robert >> tossed an alternative patch out there. I don't mind reviewing and merging >> either of them, it sounded like both are pretty close to done and I think >> from the perspective of updating drivers for 4.0 this will save quite a bit >> of time since driver maintainers won't have to add new CQL generation for >> the various new options that have recently appeared. >> >> Questions: >> >> * Does anyone have an objection to getting this into 4.0? The patches >> aren't too huge, I think they're low risk, and also fairly high reward. >> * I don't have an opinion (yet) on Robert's patch vs Chris's, with regard >> to which is preferable. >> * Since soon after Robert put up his PR he hasn't been around, at least as >> far as I've seen. How have we dealt with abandoned patches before? If >> we're going to add this in the patch will need some cleanup. Is it >> reasonable to continue someone else's work when they've disappeared? >> >> Jon >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
