in relation to MDEV-10936

Hi All!

i am trying to set up Mariadb/CONNECT to federate towards Apache Drill

a working JDBC connector towards drill works via the following connection string

Database Driver:  org.apache.drill.jdbc.impl.DriverImpl  

Database URL: jdbc:drill:drillbit=127.0.0.1:31010  

Database Type:  drill

i'm using the apache drill jdbc driver
../apache-drill-1.17.0/jars/jdbc-driver/drill-jdbc-all-1.17.0.jar

however, when i want to create a table

create table jt1 engine=connect table_type=JDBC connection='jdbc:drill:drillbit=127.0.0.1:31010';

i get the following error

ERROR 1105 (HY000): Connecting: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:drill:drillbit=127.0.0.1:31010 rc=-2

is there a way to specify the driver as "org.apache.drill.jdbc.impl.DriverImpl" as you would in a regular jdbc connection?

      // load the JDBC driver

      Class.forName("org.apache.drill.jdbc.impl.DriverImpl");

Thx in advance!

Herman