Saravanabavagugan Vengadasundaram created DRILL-5984:
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Summary: Support for Symlinked Table Paths to be used in Drill
Queries.
Key: DRILL-5984
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5984
Project: Apache Drill
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 1.11.0
Environment: OS : CentOS 7.1
MapR-DB Version: 5.2.2
Reporter: Saravanabavagugan Vengadasundaram
MapR-FS supports symlinks and hence MapR-DB table paths support symlinks as
well. As part of the project I work on, we use symlinks as a means of
communication to talk to the physical file. An employee table in MapR-DB will
be represented as "/tables/Employee/Entity_1233232" and there will be a
symlink called "/tables/Employee/Entity" pointing to the actual physical table.
Currently, drill does not understand queries having the symlink path but only
executes queries having the actual physical table path. So every time, I need
to find out the actual physical path of the table and frame my query. It would
be nice to have this feature in next version of Drill.
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