title_wip

```
DESCRIBE TABLE s3('https://datasets-documentation.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/github/github-2022.ndjson.gz')
```

```
┌─name───────┬─type─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ type       │ Nullable(String)                             │
│ actor      │ Tuple(                                      ↴│
│            │↳    avatar_url Nullable(String),            ↴│
│            │↳    display_login Nullable(String),         ↴│
│            │↳    id Nullable(Int64),                     ↴│
│            │↳    login Nullable(String),                 ↴│
│            │↳    url Nullable(String))                    │
│ repo       │ Tuple(                                      ↴│
│            │↳    id Nullable(Int64),                     ↴│
│            │↳    name Nullable(String),                  ↴│
│            │↳    url Nullable(String))                    │
│ created_at │ Nullable(String)                             │
│ payload    │ Tuple(                                      ↴│
│            │↳    action Nullable(String),                ↴│
│            │↳    distinct_size Nullable(Int64),          ↴│
│            │↳    pull_request Tuple(                     ↴│
│            │↳        author_association Nullable(String),↴│
│            │↳        base Tuple(                         ↴│
│            │↳            ref Nullable(String),           ↴│
│            │↳            sha Nullable(String)),          ↴│
│            │↳        head Tuple(                         ↴│
│            │↳            ref Nullable(String),           ↴│
│            │↳            sha Nullable(String)),          ↴│
│            │↳        number Nullable(Int64),             ↴│
│            │↳        state Nullable(String),             ↴│
│            │↳        title Nullable(String),             ↴│
│            │↳        updated_at Nullable(String),        ↴│
│            │↳        user Tuple(                         ↴│
│            │↳            login Nullable(String))),       ↴│
│            │↳    ref Nullable(String),                   ↴│
│            │↳    ref_type Nullable(String),              ↴│
│            │↳    size Nullable(Int64))                    │
└────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

5 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.059 sec.
```

As you can see, the second query succeeded almost instantly.

Let's try to change some settings that can affect inferred schema:

```
DESCRIBE TABLE s3('https://datasets-documentation.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/github/github-2022.ndjson.gz')
SETTINGS input_format_json_try_infer_named_tuples_from_objects=0, input_format_json_read_objects_as_strings = 1

┌─name───────┬─type─────────────┬─default_type─┬─default_expression─┬─comment─┬─codec_expression─┬─ttl_expression─┐
│ type       │ Nullable(String) │              │                    │         │                  │                │
│ actor      │ Nullable(String) │              │                    │         │                  │                │
│ repo       │ Nullable(String) │              │                    │         │                  │                │
│ created_at │ Nullable(String) │              │                    │         │                  │                │
│ payload    │ Nullable(String) │              │                    │         │                  │                │
└────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┘

5 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.611 sec
```

As you can see, the schema from the cache was not used for the same file, because the setting that can affect inferred schema was changed.

Let's check the content of `system.schema_inference_cache` table:

```
SELECT schema, format, source FROM system.schema_inference_cache WHERE storage='S3'
```

```
┌─schema──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─format─┬─source───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ type Nullable(String), actor Tuple(avatar_url Nullable(String), display_login Nullable(String), id Nullable(Int64), login Nullable(String), url Nullable(String)), repo Tuple(id Nullable(Int64), name Nullable(String), url Nullable(String)), created_at Nullable(String), payload Tuple(action Nullable(String), distinct_size Nullable(Int64), pull_request Tuple(author_association Nullable(String), base Tuple(ref Nullable(String), sha Nullable(String)), head Tuple(ref Nullable(String), sha Nullable(String)), number Nullable(Int64), state Nullable(String), title Nullable(String), updated_at Nullable(String), user Tuple(login Nullable(String))), ref Nullable(String), ref_type Nullable(String), size Nullable(Int64)) │ NDJSON │ datasets-documentation.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com443/datasets-documentation/github/github-2022.ndjson.gz │
│ type Nullable(String), actor Nullable(String), repo Nullable(String), created_at Nullable(String), payload Nullable(String)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 │ NDJSON │ datasets-documentation.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com443/datasets-documentation/github/github-2022.ndjson.gz │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

As you can see, there are two different schemas for the same file.

We can clear the schema cache using a system query:

```
SYSTEM CLEAR SCHEMA CACHE FOR S3
```

```
Ok.
```

```
SELECT count() FROM system.schema_inference_cache WHERE storage='S3'
```

```
┌─count()─┐
│       0 │
└─────────┘
```

## Text formats[​](#text-formats "Direct link to Text formats")

For text formats, ClickHouse reads the data row by row, extracts column values according to the format,
and then uses some recursive parsers and heuristics to determine the type for each value. The maximum number of rows and bytes read from the data in schema inference
is controlled by the settings `input_format_max_rows_to_read_for_schema_inference` (25000 by default) and `input_format_max_bytes_to_read_for_schema_inference` (32Mb by default).
By default, all inferred types are [Nullable](/docs/sql-reference/data-types/nullable), but you can change this by setting `schema_inference_make_columns_nullable` (see examples in the [settings](#settings-for-text-formats) section).