Re: How Flink knows that CREATE TABLE is sometimes about creating table, sometimes about creating file?

The role of CREATE TABLE is to provide the necessary metadata for the table -- the location of the data, its format, etc. Executing CREATE TABLE creates an entry in the catalog, but otherwise doesn't do anything. In a case like this one CREATE TABLE Table1 (column_name1 STRING, column_name2 DOUBL

How Flink knows that CREATE TABLE is sometimes about creating table, sometimes about creating file?

  To create table from file:   "CREATE TABLE Table1 (column_name1 STRING, column_name2 DOUBLE) WITH ('connector' = 'filesystem', 'path' = 'file:///C:/temp/test4.txt', 'format' = 'csv', 'csv.field-delimiter' = ';')");   To create file:   "CREATE TABLE Table1 (column_name1 STRING, column_name2