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Reynold Xin edited comment on SPARK-6865 at 4/13/15 10:26 PM:
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As discussed offline, it would makes more sense to go with option 1, i.e.
- "str" is treated as a quoted identifier in SQL, equivalent to `str`.
- "* " is a special case in which it refers to all the columns in a data frame.
(Note that this means we cannot have a column named "*", which I think is fine.)
The reason is that strings are already quoted, and programmers expect them to
be quoted literals without extra escaping.
We will need to fix our resolver with respect to dots.
was (Author: rxin):
As discussed offline, it would makes more sense to go with option 1, i.e.
- "str" is treated as a quoted identifier in SQL, equivalent to `str`.
- "*" is a special case in which it refers to all the columns in a data frame.
(Note that this means we cannot have a column named "*", which I think is fine.)
The reason is that strings are already quoted, and programmers expect them to
be quoted literals without extra escaping.
We will need to fix our resolver with respect to dots.
> Decide on semantics for string identifiers in DataFrame API
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> Key: SPARK-6865
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6865
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: SQL
> Reporter: Michael Armbrust
> Priority: Blocker
>
> There are two options:
> - Quoted Identifiers: meaning that the strings are treated as though they
> were in backticks in SQL. Any weird characters (spaces, or, etc) are
> considered part of the identifier. Kind of weird given that `*` is already a
> special identifier explicitly allowed by the API
> - Unquoted parsed identifiers: would allow users to specify things like
> tableAlias.* However, would also require explicit use of `backticks` for
> identifiers with weird characters in them.
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