[teiid-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TEIID-2898) Allow selector to be used with fixed width

[Steven Hawkins (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-2898?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Steven Hawkins updated TEIID-2898:
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    Description: To allow for fixed width files containing multiple record types, the selector functionality should apply to fixed width as well.  At least initially this will be restricted to only the overall selector as positional selector column references won't be possible.  (was: Current behavior is that data lines too short to fit a fixed width data interpretation produces an error such as "Error: Text parse error: Fixed width line width 35 is smaller than the expected 60 on text line 1 in file:/tmp/file.csv.". The customer's use case is interpreting data files from another application which bundles multiple types of data along with additional descriptive info/metadata about the data contained within the file. As the error is thrown if any lines after the first interpreted line are shorter than the summed value of the fixed width columns, they are unable to query the file. The customer wishes for the ERROR to be suppressed and the query to return the data independent of whether it fits the fixed width criteria and potentially to be able to filter the data being retrieved.)

    
> Allow selector to be used with fixed width
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>                 Key: TEIID-2898
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-2898
>             Project: Teiid
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Query Engine
>            Reporter: Van Halbert
>            Assignee: Barry LaFond
>             Fix For: 8.7
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> To allow for fixed width files containing multiple record types, the selector functionality should apply to fixed width as well.  At least initially this will be restricted to only the overall selector as positional selector column references won't be possible.

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