Hi Gyula, What line 622 (the link you shared) does is not registering catalogs, but setting an already registered catalog as the current one. As you can see from the method and its comment, catalogs are loaded first before any tables in yaml are registered, so you should be able to achieve what you described.
Bowen On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 5:16 AM Gyula Fóra <gyula.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all! > > I was testing the TemporalTable functionality in the SQL client while using > the Hive Catalog and I ran into the following problem. > > I have a table created in the Hive catalog and I want to create a temporal > table over it. > > As we cannot create temporal tables in SQL directly I have to define it in > the environment yaml file. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to > reference a table only present in the catalog (not in the yaml) as catalogs > are loaded only after creating the temporal table (see > > https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-table/flink-sql-client/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/client/gateway/local/ExecutionContext.java#L622 > ) > > I am wondering if it would make sense to set the catalogs before all else > or if that would cause some other problems. > > What do you think? > Gyula >
