adarshsanjeev commented on code in PR #15689:
URL: https://github.com/apache/druid/pull/15689#discussion_r1475840275


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docs/multi-stage-query/reference.md:
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@@ -90,6 +93,66 @@ can precede the column list: `EXTEND (timestamp VARCHAR...)`.
 
 For more information, see [Read external data with 
EXTERN](concepts.md#read-external-data-with-extern).
 
+#### `EXTERN` to export to a destination
+
+`EXTERN` can be used to specify a destination, where the data needs to be 
exported.
+This variation of EXTERN requires one argument, the details of the destination 
as specified below.
+This variation additionally requires an `AS` clause to specify the format of 
the exported rows.
+
+INSERT statements and REPLACE statements are both supported with an `EXTERN` 
destination.
+Only `CSV` format is supported at the moment.
+Please note that partitioning (`PARTITIONED BY`) and clustering (`CLUSTERED 
BY`) is not currently supported with export statements.
+
+Export statements support the context parameter `rowsPerPage` for the number 
of rows in each exported file. The default value
+is 100,000.
+
+INSERT statements append the results to the existing files at the destination.
+```sql
+INSERT INTO
+  EXTERN(<destination function>)
+AS CSV
+SELECT
+  <column>
+FROM <table>
+```
+
+REPLACE statements have an additional OVERWRITE clause. As partitioning is not 
yet supported, only `OVERWRITE ALL`
+is allowed. REPLACE deletes any currently existing files at the specified 
directory, and creates new files with the results of the query.
+
+
+```sql
+REPLACE INTO
+  EXTERN(<destination function>)
+AS CSV
+OVERWRITE ALL
+SELECT
+  <column>
+FROM <table>
+```
+
+Exporting is currently supported for Amazon S3 storage. This can be done 
passing the function `S3()` as an argument to the `EXTERN` function. The 
`druid-s3-extensions` should be loaded.
+
+```sql
+INSERT INTO
+  EXTERN(S3(bucket=<...>, prefix=<...>, tempDir=<...>))

Review Comment:
   Changed the example here



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