Re: Remove REGEX Column Specification

2020-04-15 Thread David Mollitor
I've got all tests passing on this. Are there other questions? Is anyone willing to +1 ? Thanks. On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 12:28 PM David Mollitor wrote: > Hey Zoltan, > > Thanks for the feedback and for sharing HIVE-16496. > > I think HIVE-16496 is a better approach because it allows for the

Re: Remove REGEX Column Specification

2020-04-14 Thread David Mollitor
Hey Zoltan, Thanks for the feedback and for sharing HIVE-16496. I think HIVE-16496 is a better approach because it allows for the standard SQL behavior of object identifiers, but the SQL syntax is expanded (instead of overloaded) to provide this feature. Also, if a user would like to do some

Re: Remove REGEX Column Specification

2020-04-14 Thread Zoltan Haindrich
Hey, I don't want to protect this feature - but I think it could be usefull; probably it would be ok to remove it but we should provide something else instead - I think this is the only way to "exclude" some specific columns from the output - without listing all the columns. How much are

Remove REGEX Column Specification

2020-04-13 Thread David Mollitor
Hello Gang, I've been tracking a lot of issues recently regarding qualified tables names, qualified table names, table names using back ticks, and other similar circumstances. I've looked into trying to address some of these and noted that these issue goes way back and are go all the way down to