bar charts with ordinal x-axis cannot use log-scale on y-axis

[pdhorn]

{
  "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v5.json",
  "description": "Google's stock price over time.",
  "data": {
    "values": [
      {"y": 2, "x": 1},
      {"y": 7, "x": 3},
      {"y": 4, "x": 4},
      {"y": 1, "x": 6},
      {"y": 8, "x": 8},
      {"y": 3, "x": 9},
      {"y": 5, "x": 10}
    ]
  },
  "mark": "bar",
  "encoding": {
    "x": {"field": "x", "type": "ordinal"},
    "y": {"field": "y", "type": "quantitative", "scale": {"type": "log"}}
  }
}

Is trying to use a log scale on the y-axis, with an ordinal x-axis. This produces a blank chart:

Note, changing encoding.x.type to quantitative produces a reasonable chart with very skinny bars. Alternatively, removing the encoding.y.scale (and leaving x as ordinal) produces a bar chart with thicker bars.

I would like to have the ordinal x-axis / thick bars with the y-axis on a log scale.

[pdhorn]

This also fails when the x-axis is temporal

[domoritz]

There is a warning in the editor "Cannot stack non-linear scale (log).". The problem is that stacked data cannot be on a log scale.

You need to disable stacking: Open the Chart in the Vega Editor.

I think we should disable automatic stacking when the scale is log.

[pdhorn]

Thanks for the tip and the fix @domoritz !