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zha...@lenovocloud.com From: Jark Wu Date: 2019-10-08 17:29 To: dev Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] FLIP-65: New type inference for Table API UDFs Hi Timo, Thanks for the proposal, a big +1 to the FLIP, especially this enables the unified `TableEnvironment.registerFunction()`. I think the design documentation is pretty good enough, I only left some minor comments there. Best, Jark On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 23:54, Timo Walther <twal...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to propose FLIP-65 that describes how we want to deal with > data types and their inference/extraction in the Table API in the > future. I have collected many comments, shortcomings, issues from users > and trainings in last years that went into the design. It completes the > work started in FLIP-37 by upgrading the type system to DataTypes and > allowing new use cases. Some key features of this FLIP are: > > - Type extraction closely coupled to the SQL standard (with > precision/scale specification and complex data types) > > - Simple stuff is simple, missing information can be provided with > annotations without the need to specify everything from scratch. > > - Full access to the planner's type inference which allows to create > UDFs as powerful as built-in system functions > > - Unification of Scala and Java API to enable the unified > TableEnvironment.registerFunction() > > > The design document can be found here: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zf8-okGvCiTTRaTN0IqtTGrrjXYNGFJnhUQyinF4xcU/edit# > > I will convert it to a wiki page after the first review comments. > > Happy to hear your thoughts. > > Thanks, > > Timo > > [1] > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-37%3A+Rework+of+the+Table+API+Type+System > >