+1, thanks yuxia for driving the hive decoupling work!
Since the 1.16 release, the compatibility of Hive queries has reached a
relatively high level, so it is time to abandon the internal fallback,
which will make the behavior of the Hive dialect clearer.

Best,
Lincoln Lee


Jark Wu <imj...@gmail.com> 于2023年6月1日周四 21:23写道:

> +1, I think this can make the grammar more clear.
> Please remember to add a release note once the issue is finished.
>
> Best,
> Jark
>
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 11:28, yuxia <luoyu...@alumni.sjtu.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Jingsong. It's hard to provide an option regarding to the fact that
> we
> > also want to decouple Hive with flink planner.
> > If we still need this fall back behavior, we will still depend on
> > `ParserImpl` provided by flink-table-planner  on HiveParser.
> > But to try best to minimize the impact to users and more user-friendly,
> > I'll remind users may use set table.sql-dialect = default to switch to
> > Flink's default dialect in error message when fail to parse the sql in
> > HiveParser.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yuxia
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yuxia
> >
> > ----- 原始邮件 -----
> > 发件人: "Jingsong Li" <jingsongl...@gmail.com>
> > 收件人: "Rui Li" <lirui.fu...@gmail.com>
> > 抄送: "dev" <dev@flink.apache.org>, "yuxia" <luoyu...@alumni.sjtu.edu.cn>,
> > "User" <u...@flink.apache.org>
> > 发送时间: 星期二, 2023年 5 月 30日 下午 3:21:56
> > 主题: Re: [DISCUSS] Hive dialect shouldn't fall back to Flink's default
> > dialect
> >
> > +1, the fallback looks weird now, it is outdated.
> >
> > But, it is good to provide an option. I don't know if there are some
> > users who depend on this fallback.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jingsong
> >
> > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 1:47 PM Rui Li <lirui.fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > +1, the fallback was just intended as a temporary workaround to run
> > catalog/module related statements with hive dialect.
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 3:59 PM Benchao Li <libenc...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Big +1 on this, thanks yuxia for driving this!
> > >>
> > >> yuxia <luoyu...@alumni.sjtu.edu.cn> 于2023年5月29日周一 14:55写道:
> > >>
> > >> > Hi, community.
> > >> >
> > >> > I want to start the discussion about Hive dialect shouldn't fall
> back
> > to
> > >> > Flink's default dialect.
> > >> >
> > >> > Currently, when the HiveParser fail to parse the sql in Hive
> dialect,
> > >> > it'll fall back to Flink's default parser[1] to handle
> flink-specific
> > >> > statements like "CREATE CATALOG xx with (xx);".
> > >> >
> > >> > As I‘m involving with Hive dialect and have some communication with
> > >> > community users who use Hive dialectrecently,  I'm thinking throw
> > exception
> > >> > directly instead of falling back to Flink's default dialect when
> fail
> > to
> > >> > parse the sql in Hive dialect
> > >> >
> > >> > Here're some reasons:
> > >> >
> > >> > First of all, it'll hide some error with Hive dialect. For example,
> we
> > >> > found we can't use Hive dialect any more with Flink sql client in
> > release
> > >> > validation phase[2], finally we find a modification in Flink sql
> > client
> > >> > cause it, but our test case can't find it earlier for although
> > HiveParser
> > >> > faill to parse it but then it'll fall back to default parser and
> pass
> > test
> > >> > case successfully.
> > >> >
> > >> > Second, conceptually, Hive dialect should be do nothing with Flink's
> > >> > default dialect. They are two totally different dialect. If we do
> > need a
> > >> > dialect mixing Hive dialect and default dialect , may be we need to
> > propose
> > >> > a new hybrid dialect and announce the hybrid behavior to users.
> > >> > Also, It made some users confused for the fallback behavior. The
> fact
> > >> > comes from I had been ask by community users. Throw an excpetioin
> > directly
> > >> > when fail to parse the sql statement in Hive dialect will be more
> > intuitive.
> > >> >
> > >> > Last but not least, it's import to decouple Hive with Flink
> planner[3]
> > >> > before we can externalize Hive connector[4]. If we still fall back
> to
> > Flink
> > >> > default dialct, then we will need depend on `ParserImpl` in Flink
> > planner,
> > >> > which will block us removing the provided dependency of Hive dialect
> > as
> > >> > well as externalizing Hive connector.
> > >> >
> > >> > Although we hadn't announced the fall back behavior ever, but some
> > users
> > >> > may implicitly depend on this behavior in theirs sql jobs. So, I
> > hereby
> > >> > open the dicussion about abandoning the fall back behavior to make
> > Hive
> > >> > dialect clear and isoloted.
> > >> > Please remember it won't break the Hive synatax but the syntax
> > specified
> > >> > to Flink may fail after then. But for the failed sql, you can use
> `SET
> > >> > table.sql-dialect=default;` to switch to Flink dialect.
> > >> > If there's some flink-specific statements we found should be
> included
> > in
> > >> > Hive dialect to be easy to use, I think we can still add them as
> > specific
> > >> > cases to Hive dialect.
> > >> >
> > >> > Look forwards to your feedback. I'd love to listen the feedback from
> > >> > community to take the next steps.
> > >> >
> > >> > [1]:
> > >> >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/678370b18e1b6c4a23e5ce08f8efd05675a0cc17/flink-connectors/flink-connector-hive/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/planner/delegation/hive/HiveParser.java#L348
> > >> > [2]:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-26681
> > >> > [3]:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-31413
> > >> > [4]:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-30064
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Best regards,
> > >> > Yuxia
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >> Best,
> > >> Benchao Li
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best regards!
> > > Rui Li
> >
>

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