Gustavo de Morais created FLINK-37267:
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             Summary: Support WITH ORDINALITY for UNNEST
                 Key: FLINK-37267
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-37267
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Table SQL / API
            Reporter: Gustavo de Morais


The SQL standard specifies a WITH ORDINALITY clause that can be appended to any 
UNNEST function call, which returns a new row for each element and its position 
in the data structure being unnested.


Examples:

```sql
-- Returns a new row for each element in a constant array and its position in 
the array
SELECT * 
FROM (VALUES('order_1'))
CROSS JOIN UNNEST(ARRAY["shirt", "pants", "hat"]) 
WITH ORDINALITY AS t(product_name, index)

id product_name index
======= ============ =====
order_1 shirt 1
order_1 pants 2
order_1 hat 3

-- Returns a new row for each element and its position in the array assuming a 
Orders table with an array column `product_names`
SELECT order_id, product_name, product_index
FROM Orders 
CROSS JOIN UNNEST(product_names) 
WITH ORDINALITY AS t(product_name, product_index)
```

A unnest with ordinality will return each element and the position of the 
element in the data structure, 1-indexed. The order of the elements for arrays 
and multisets is guaranteed. Since maps are unordered, the order of the 
elements is not guaranteed.



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