Description
In current HAWQ, two native formats are supported: AO and parquet. Now we want to support ORC. A framework to support naive c/c++ pluggable format is needed to support ORC more easily. And it can also be potentially used for fast external data access.
And there are a lot of requests for supporting S3, Ceph and other file systems, and this is closely related to pluggable formats, so this JIRA is proposing a framework to support both.