Till Rohrmann created FLINK-4244: ------------------------------------ Summary: Field names for union operator do not have to be equal Key: FLINK-4244 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4244 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: Table API & SQL Affects Versions: 1.1.0 Reporter: Till Rohrmann Priority: Trivial
Flink Table API's documentation says that the schemas of unioned tables have to be identical (wrt types and names). However, union works also with tables where the types are identical but not the names: {code} val input1Seq = 0 until 10 map {x => (x, ('a' + x).toChar.toString, x.toDouble)} val input2Seq = 0 until 10 map {x => (x, ('a' + x).toChar.toString, x.toDouble)} val inputDS1 = env.fromCollection(input1Seq) val inputDS2 = env.fromCollection(input2Seq) val input1 = tblEnv.fromDataSet(inputDS1, 'a, 'b, 'c) tblEnv.registerTable("foobar", input1) val input2 = tblEnv.fromDataSet(inputDS2, 'd, 'e, 'f) tblEnv.registerTable("foobar2", input2) val result = tblEnv.sql("SELECT * FROM foobar UNION ALL SELECT * FROM foobar2") tblEnv.toDataSet[Row](result).print() {code} We should update the documentation accordingly. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)