Github user vdiravka commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/520#discussion_r99823941 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/planner/sql/SqlConverter.java --- @@ -161,6 +161,19 @@ public SqlNode parse(String sql) { SqlParser parser = SqlParser.create(sql, parserConfig); return parser.parseStmt(); } catch (SqlParseException e) { + + // Attempt to use default back_tick quote character for identifiers, when QUOTING_IDENTIFIERS_CHARACTER --- End diff -- Yes, it was desirable behaviour: [DRILL-3510#comment_1](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3510?focusedCommentId=14645147&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14645147) [DRILL-3510#comment_2](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3510?focusedCommentId=14943769&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14943769) Since calcite doesn't support parsing statement with two different characters the only way is this approach. But I agree that it isn't an elegant decision. Therefore I plan to make as you suggested - to return the appropriate error.
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