Keegan Mosley created HIVE-3236: ----------------------------------- Summary: allow column names to be prefixed by table alias in select all queries Key: HIVE-3236 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3236 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Components: Query Processor Affects Versions: 0.10.0, 0.9.1 Reporter: Keegan Mosley Priority: Minor
When using "CREATE TABLE x AS SELECT ..." where the select joins tables with hundreds of columns it is not a simple task to resolve duplicate column name exceptions (particularly with self-joins). The user must either manually specify aliases for all duplicate columns (potentially hundreds) or write a script to generate the data set in a separate select query, then create the table and load the data in. There should be some conf flag that would allow queries like "create table joined as select one.*, two.* from mytable one join mytable two on (one.duplicate_field = two.duplicate_field1);" to create a table with columns one_duplicate_field and two_duplicate_field. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira