Istvan Toth created PHOENIX-6384:
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Summary: Allow using colon for specifying column families in sql
grammar
Key: PHOENIX-6384
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-6384
Project: Phoenix
Issue Type: Wish
Components: core
Reporter: Istvan Toth
As I worked on the query compiler code recently, it became apparent that the
way we overload the . (dot) character for specifying column families is a very
limited and ambigous choice, with ugly and error-prone code hacked into the
compiler to support it.
While we cannot remove the currently supported syntax from the code, we should
look into adding an alternate unambigious syntax for the same, which could be
used with less limitations.
I get the impression that using colon for this should be doable.
{noformat}
select cf:* from table;
select a:cf.*, b:cf:*, a.cf.column from table a, table b; //not possible
currenty
{noformat}
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