Another feature that I would like to have in smart_open is support for direct reading/writing of the data to/from ftp.

Anyone else interested in this? Does this make sense?

xref #2352

Looks like impala udf tests were unintentionally skipped from the CI, and we've got several failures now:

FAILED ibis/impala/tests/test_udf.py::test_identity_primitive_types[boolean-True-bool_col]
FAILED ibis/impala/tests/test_udf.py::test_identity_primitive_types[int8-lit_val1-tinyint_col]
FAILED ibis/impala/tests/test_udf.py::test_identity_primitive_types[int16-lit_val2-sma

Similar to how unix ls works, param could be -t

Given the new key-value store event stream, it'd be nice to have something like:

$ skein kv events <application id> [options...]

where the process blocks, and logs the event stream to the console until interrupted. This would be useful for debugging, as well as demos.

Assuming a valid hive-site.xml, it will be possible to determine the active hive warehouse HDFS directory and HiveServer2 and Metastore URIs.

From there we should be able to perform a directory analysis on the hive warehouse parent directory and then all HDFS locations that represent tables / partitions.