Re: IMPALA-4326 - split() function

2017-07-10 Thread Edward Capriolo
That standard 2016 spec did not predate hive's implementation of lateral view On Sunday, July 9, 2017, Greg Rahn wrote: > (also commented on IMPALA-4326) > > For this functionality, I'd prefer to follow what Postgres does and use its > well-named functions like string_to_array(). > This becomes

Re: IMPALA-4326 - split() function

2017-07-09 Thread Greg Rahn
(also commented on IMPALA-4326) For this functionality, I'd prefer to follow what Postgres does and use its well-named functions like string_to_array(). This becomes powerful when using the unnest() table function, which is defined and is part of the ANSI/ISO SQL:2016 spec (vs the non-standard lat

Re: IMPALA-4326 - split() function

2017-06-19 Thread Alexander Behm
Yes and no. Extending the UDF framework might be hard, but I think implementing a built-in split() is feasible. We already have a built-in Expr that returns an array type to implement unnest. On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Vincent Tran wrote: > This request appears to be blocked by the current