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Siying Dong commented on HIVE-1517:
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Double check about character escaping. For db.table, we want the correct
escaping format to be `db`.`table`. `db.table` Should be considered ilegal. Is
that right?
> ability to select across a database
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>
> Key: HIVE-1517
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1517
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Query Processor
> Reporter: Namit Jain
> Assignee: Siying Dong
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.7.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-1517.1.patch.txt, HIVE-1517.2.patch.txt
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> After https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-675, we need a way to be
> able to select across a database for this feature to be useful.
> For eg:
> use db1
> create table foo(....);
> use db2
> select .. from db1.foo.....
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