Github user zellerh commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/trafodion/pull/1525#discussion_r182605678
--- Diff: core/sql/common/ExprNode.cpp ---
@@ -737,6 +737,16 @@ NABoolean OperatorType::match(OperatorTypeEnum
wildcard) const
return FALSE;
}
+ case REL_ANY_EXTRACT:
+ switch (op_)
+ {
+ case REL_FAST_EXTRACT:
--- End diff --
Yes, this is for historical reasons. Khaled originally implemented a "fast
extract" operator that would take the output of a query and store it in a
delimited HDFS file.
Later, when we wanted to implement insert into Hive tables, someone
recognized that the fast extract operator did something very similar, so they
enhanced it and internally used it to implement Hive inserts. We could try to
hide this by avoiding the term "FAST_EXTRACT", and in fact this is done in
EXPLAIN, but SHOWSHAPE still shows this heritage.
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