Justin Swanhart

No, that isn't supported right now. The coordinator shard has to have the schema of the other shard. I can add code to use a different shard than the coordinator...

The underlying reasons are: CREATE TABLE .. AS SELECT is used to create the coordinator table Looking up partition information is done on the coord shard (requires schema) Looking up...

Either DDL should prevent the creation of such columns, or such columns must be supported properly. As is, the behavior truncating the expected precision silently is _not good_

The query rewrite mechanism is not technically limited to SQL thus MDX support would be a possibility. It probably isn't a priority though, unless you want to sponsor something along...