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Dudu Markovitz updated HIVE-16496:
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> Enhance asterisk expression (as in "select *") with EXCLUDE clause
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> Key: HIVE-16496
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16496
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Parser
> Reporter: Dudu Markovitz
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> support the following syntax:
> {code}
> select * exclude (a,b,e) from t
> {code}
> which for a table t with columns a,b,c,d,e would be equal to:
> {code}
> select c,d from t
> {code}
> Please note that the EXCLUDE clause relates directly to its preceding
> asterisk.
> A common use case would be:
> {code}
> select t1.* exclude (x), t2.* from t1 join t2 on t1.x=t2.x;
> {code}
> This supplies a very clean way to select all columns without getting
> "Ambiguous column reference" and without the need to specify all the columns
> of at least one of the tables.
>
> Currently, without this enhancement, the query would look something like this:
> {code}
> select a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,y,z,t2.* from t1 join t2
> on t1.x=t2.x;
> {code}
> Considering that a table may contain hundreds or even thousands of column
> this can be come very ugly and error prone.
> Often this require some scripting work.
> An extension to this enhancement would be supporting positional column
> notation, e.g.:
> {code}
> select * exclude (${1,2,5}) from t /* exclude columns 1, 2 and 5 */
> select * exclude (${1-3}) from t /* exclude columns 1 to 3 */
> select * exclude (${1,3-5,7}) from t /* exclude columns 1,3 to 5 and 7 */
> select * exclude (${3,5-}) from t /* exclude the 3rd column and all columns
> from the 5th column to the end */
> select * exclude (-${1,2}) from t /* exclude last 2 columns */
> select * exclude (-${1-3,7}) from t /* exclude last 3 columns and the 7th
> column from the end */
> {code}
> A complex example would look like:
> {code}
> select * exclude (${1-3,5,7},x,y,-${1-2}) from t
> {code}
> exclude:
> - first 3 columns
> - 5th and 7th columns
> - x and y
> - last 2 columns
> P.s. 1
> There should be *no* error raised for the following scenarios:
> - Excluding a column that does not exists in the columns set
> - Excluding the same column more than once (e.g. by name and by position).
> - Excluding all columns
> P.s. 2
> This enhancement answers a real need that is being raised again again in the
> Hive users community as well in legacy RDBMS communities.
> As far as I know, no provider had yet implemented something similar and we
> have an opportunity here to lead the SQL ecosystem.
>
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