godfreyhe opened a new pull request #11905: URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/11905
## What is the purpose of the change *For TableEnvironment#explain() method, legacy batch planner throws exception directly and legacy stream planner does not handle sink node. This pr fixes them problems first. And then, this pr aim to supports the following features: TableEnvironment#explainSql supports EXPLAIN statement; Introduce TableEnvironment#explainSql api, Introduce Table#explain api* ## Brief change log - *legacy stream planner supports explain insert operation* - *legacy batch planner supports explain insert operation* - *TableEnvironment#explainSql supports EXPLAIN statement* - *Introduce TableEnvironment#explainSql api* - *Introduce Table#explain api* ## Verifying this change This change added tests and can be verified as follows: - *Extended TableEnvironmentTest/BatchTableEnvironmentTest/StreamTableEnvironmentTest to verify the features* ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts: - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): (yes / **no**) - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: (yes / **no**) - The serializers: (yes / **no** / don't know) - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): (yes / **no** / don't know) - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Kubernetes/Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: (yes / **no** / don't know) - The S3 file system connector: (yes / **no** / don't know) ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? (yes / **no**) - If yes, how is the feature documented? (not applicable / docs / **JavaDocs** / not documented) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org