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Proposals, integrations, and investigations across the tools I work with.

446 public threads across 185 repositories Checked September 2026

An illustration of an adapter joining different data interfaces, with an upstream change path.

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Reading legacy Spark ORC files

Reported a time-zone compatibility problem, supplied diagnostic evidence, and tested a maintainer-proposed patch that restored reads.

The upstream fix was merged in May 2023.Merged fix ↗

Design proposals

An official MCP interface for Trino

Proposed exposing Trino’s federated metadata to agents, with discussion of deployment boundaries and security.

OpenInference support for AI observability

Proposed first-class tracing for model calls, retrieval, tools, agents, and token usage in Elastic’s collector.

Cost checks before expensive queries run

Proposed configurable warnings before expensive warehouse queries execute. A maintainer explored a prototype, which closed without merging; the proposal remains open.

Shared catalogs for StarRocks

Proposed a StarRocks connector for centrally managed catalogs, with discussion of the external-catalog interface it would need.

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