The main purpose of toSql() is for creating views and the "show create
table" statement.
Note that when creating a view it is not correct to just dump the query
text as is into the Hive Metastore because table names need to be resolved
and fully qualified when storing the view definition.
On Wed,
Dear Impala Developers,
I looked into IMPALA-784, which is about properly quoting the result of a
"show create table" command. I noticed the ToSqlTest which checks that
ParseNode.toSql() applies proper quoting. However, I found that the handler
of the "show create table" statement does not use Par
