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Harish Butani commented on HIVE-6013:
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At the language level any identifier can be quoted. The change made was at the
Lexer level.
Special characters is probably ok in Usernames. I didn't want to make this
assertion because there maybe code in the metadata layer that doesn't like
special characters. For e.g we know for tableNames this is an issue.
If you don't anticipate an issue, we can say that special characters are
supported for Usernames. Hopefully this can be extended to role/privilege names
also.
> Supporting Quoted Identifiers in Column Names
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-6013
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6013
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Query Processor
> Reporter: Harish Butani
> Assignee: Harish Butani
> Fix For: 0.13.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-6013.1.patch, HIVE-6013.2.patch, HIVE-6013.3.patch,
> HIVE-6013.4.patch, HIVE-6013.5.patch, HIVE-6013.6.patch, HIVE-6013.7.patch,
> QuotedIdentifier.html
>
>
> Hive's current behavior on Quoted Identifiers is different from the normal
> interpretation. Quoted Identifier (using backticks) has a special
> interpretation for Select expressions(as Regular Expressions). Have
> documented current behavior and proposed a solution in attached doc.
> Summary of solution is:
> - Introduce 'standard' quoted identifiers for columns only.
> - At the langauage level this is turned on by a flag.
> - At the metadata level we relax the constraint on column names.
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