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Navis commented on HIVE-3534:
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[~appodictic] Interesting. How about make a grammar something like OUTER
LATERAL VIEW, which could be used more generic with all other UDTFs?
> Add left Lateral view syntax
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> Key: HIVE-3534
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3534
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Edward Capriolo
> Assignee: Edward Capriolo
> Attachments: hive-3534.diff.txt
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> A lateral view is like a join and if the function in question (like
> explode()) produces zero rows then you lose the row
> whereas conceivably you could keep the row and just fill all entry with nulls.
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