Andrew Lamb

> I like the idea to have a cli frontend that is query engine agnostic (datafusion, duckdb), table agnostic (iceberg, delta), file agnostic (parquet, lance), and even more. This sounds...

> Where I disagree (I think) with @alamb is around what it lacks — my main problem with datafusion-cli is the "UI" — all the small parts of the best...

> Just want to highlight the existing tool authored by @matthewmturner one more time -- perhaps there is no need for another terminal app as the existing one (datafusion-tui) seems...

> @alamb it would certainly be good to get your view on the current state of the project / any PRs / new issues. An approach that might be practical...

> I'd like to highlight the idea of having table providers in datafusion-table-providers and integrating them in datafusion-tui from there. This way the providers are also readily available for those...

> @alamb When did you plan on starting to work on this? I keep telling myself "tomorrow" but then I end up getting carried away reviewing all the other good...

I think `dft` https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-dft seems to be serving this purpose well

I think dft is pretty close, so I am claiming this is done

@XiangpengHao has a draft pr here https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/11898

I think @wiedld is planning to look at this soon -- maybe @Blizzara will have some ideas if we run into how to map the types to/from the substrait types