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Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-3534: --------------------------------------- I did consider that. I have never actually added anything to hive grammar also not skilled on developing query parsers/planners. I would like to add this UDF and possibly do what you are suggesting as a follow up, but I could use someone to guide me through it. > Add left Lateral view syntax > ---------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3534 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3534 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Edward Capriolo > Assignee: Edward Capriolo > Attachments: hive-3534.diff.txt > > > A lateral view is like a join and if the function in question (like > explode()) produces zero rows then you lose the row > whereas conceivably you could keep the row and just fill all entry with nulls. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira