Navis created HIVE-4204:
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Summary: Support ellipsis for selecting multiple columns
Key: HIVE-4204
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4204
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Query Processor
Reporter: Navis
Assignee: Navis
Priority: Trivial
Some UDF should take all columns starting from second or third one and in this
case, star argument(HIVE-3490) cannot be used. It's not pleasant to specify all
of them especially when the table has many of columns. For example,
{noformat}
select some_udtf(a2,a3,a4,a5,a6) as (a2,a3,a4,a5,a6) from table;
{noformat}
it can be simplified to
{noformat}
select some_udtf(a2...) as (a2,a3,a4,a5,a6) from table;
{noformat}
if HIVE-2608 would be committed, it can be simplified further
{noformat}
select some_udtf(a2...) from table;
{noformat}
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