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The "Hive/ViewDev" page has been changed by JohnSichi. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/ViewDev?action=diff&rev1=8&rev2=9 -------------------------------------------------- Implementing this typically requires expanding the view definition into an explicit form rather than storing the original view definition text directly. Doing this could require adding "unparse" support to the AST model (to be applied after object name resolution takes place), something which is not currently present (and which is also useful to have available in general). However, storing both the expanded form and the original view definition text as well can also be useful for both DESCRIBE readability as well as functionality (see later section on ALTER VIEW v RECOMPILE). + + '''Update 7-Jan-2010''': Rather than adding full-blown unparse support to the AST model, I'm taking a parser-dependent shortcut. ANTLR's TokenRewriteStream provides a way to substitute text for token subsequences from the original token stream and then regenerate a transformed version of the parsed text. So, during column resolution, we map an expression such as "t.*" to replacement text "t.c1, t.c2, t.c3". Then once all columns have been resolved, we regenerate the view definition using these mapped replacements. Likewise, an unqualified column reference such as "c" gets replaced with the qualified reference "t.c". The rest of the parsed text remains unchanged. + + This approach will break if we ever need to perform more drastic (AST-based) rewrites as part of view expansion in the future. == Metastore Modeling ==
