Bret McGuire

A quick status update here: there's some overlap between the changes in this PR and some changes being proposed in @chibenwa's [PR](https://github.com/apache/cassandra-java-driver/pull/1623) to minimize the number of resolutions of ExecutionProfile...

Apologies @nitinitt , I know this has taken a long time to get to... I really appreciate your patience. Overall I'm pretty positive on the change but I'm a bit...

@nitinitt Probably the most straightforward way to incorporate the changes would be to get a patch file from the other PR and then apply that patch to this PR. You...

Excellent, that looks great @nitinitt! Thanks for jumping on that so quickly! As for your question: we do indeed plan on merging this ticket before the next release (version 4.18.1)....

Thanks @nitinitt, this looks great! I concur that this commit looks like it contains all the fixes we've been discussing so we are ready to get this guy in! Big...

I do have a few questions. @michaelsembwever I don't know if you can help with some/all of these... I can follow up other places if need be. 1. This change...

One other thing worth mentioning: the Cassandra impl also supports a way to get "the similarity calculation of the best scoring node closest to the query data as part of...

Good call on the similarity_* functions @SiyaoIsHiding!

I'm not 💯 sure what the accessors on DefaultSelect are intended to do but I suppose it does make sense to keep it consistent and add an accessor for the...

Thanks for the PR @akhaku! After thinking about this for just a bit my inclination is to continue down the path you outline here. I'm not _completely_ convinced about the...