[jira] (FLINK-5441) Directly allow SQL queries on a Table

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-5441   Re: Directly allow SQL queries on a Table Github user twalthr commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3107 @KurtYoung I agree that this syntax can be misused like `table.sql("SELECT * FROM otherTable")`. But right now it is very inconvenient to always register a table first, especially if you want to define multiple queries subsequently. We could also think about `env.sql("SELECT * FROM _ JOIN _", table, otherTable)`. Other suggestions are very welcome. Another idea that just came to my mind. We could also use the `toString` method of a Table. This method could implicitly register the Table under a unique name and return that. Then we could support `env.sql(s"SELECT * FROM $table JOIN $otherTable")`. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346-sha1:dbc023d)