[Gretl-devel] Re: join gdt-file: series description gets lost

On Sun, 9 Apr 2023, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 09.04.2023 um 10:54 schrieb Artur T.: >> Hi all, >> >> I stumbled probably over some bug when joining a series. >> >> When appending a gdt-dataset, the description of a series gets shipped. >> However, when joining a series, this meta-information gets lost. >> > Confirmed - I guess this oversight happened because first 'join' only worked > with csv files and only later was extended to accept gdt files as well. I'd hesitate to call this a bug. The "join" command is supposed to be a fairly general method for structured data import, and as such it has no provision for metadata import. OTOH, in the special case when the outer file is gdt, I think this could be provided quite safely.