{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/657#issuecomment-575321322", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/657", "id": 575321322, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU3NTMyMTMyMg==", "user": {"value": 1055831, "label": "dazzag24"}, "created_at": "2020-01-16T20:01:43Z", "updated_at": "2020-01-16T20:01:43Z", "author_association": "NONE", "body": "I have successfully tested datasette using a parquet VIRTUAL TABLE.  In the first terminal:\r\n\r\n```datasette airports.db --load-extension=libparquet```\r\n\r\nIn another terminal I load the same sqlite db file using the sqlite3 cli client.\r\n\r\n```$ sqlite3 airports.db```\r\n\r\nand then load the parquet extension and create the virtual table.\r\n\r\n```\r\nsqlite> .load /home/darreng/metars/libparquet\r\nsqlite> CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE mytable USING parquet('/home/xx/data.parquet');\r\n```\r\n\r\nNow the parquet virtual table is usable by the datasette web UI.\r\n\r\nIts not an ideal solution but is a proof that datasette works the parquet extension.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 548591089, "label": "Allow creation of virtual tables at startup"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}