DataFrame read_* methods should allow globs that don't match any files in streaming pipelines if schema is specified
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Unclear how we should have the user specify the schema, pandas has no standard way for us to do this. We could add our own schema= or dtypes/names= kwargs. Alternatively, we might provide a way for the user to specify a "sample" file that we can read with pandas.
Imported from Jira [BEAM-12031](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-12031). Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: bhulette.
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