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yuemeng commented on FLINK-7151: -------------------------------- [~jark] yes,extend the ExternalCatalog to support register external functions is a very good way ,i think,maybe we can register a function use sql ddl instead of api here some questions: 1) all buitin function in flink will be register to shcema each job cycle.it's a ugly way 2) agg function such as sum,avg should matched by calcite,we can directly get the exact function by aggCall instead of hard code > FLINK SQL support create temporary function and table > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-7151 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7151 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Table API & SQL > Reporter: yuemeng > > Based on create temporary function and table.we can register a udf,udaf,udtf > use sql: > {code} > CREATE TEMPORARY function 'TOPK' AS > 'com.xxxx.aggregate.udaf.distinctUdaf.topk.ITopKUDAF'; > INSERT INTO db_sink SELECT id, TOPK(price, 5, 'DESC') FROM kafka_source GROUP > BY id; > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)