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Really, is this what's getting praised? I mean specifically the first point: the whole "just paste the url into the DB" - thing, + inferring the column names. T
by dgan 2y ago
Really, is this what's getting praised? I mean specifically the first point: the whole "just paste the url into the DB" - thing, + inferring the column names. That looks like the laziest and shakiest basis, and if I ever saw that in production i d be both stunned and scared
- calpaterson 2y agoIt is a really useful feature for ad hoc examination of datasets. Not every data-analysis is going into a massive, mission critical production build chain. Quite often you just want to look at the data in a REPL and IMO that sort of usage could bear to get a little easier
- buremba 2y agoWhat's wrong with the URL in the query?
- la_fayette 2y agoInference for column names and datatypes seems only relevant for csv? Other formats convey that metadata, as e.g. parquet... csv metadata inference in duckdb is amazing. There is some research in this domain and duckdb does a great job there, but yes there might be some really strange csv files, which require manual intervention.
- sagarm 2y agoIt would be perfectly reasonable IMO to put your metadata elsewhere and still use DuckDB for processing.