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Flavio Pompermaier commented on FLINK-17361: -------------------------------------------- [~jark] or [~Leonard Xu]: is there a way to automatically infer the column info from the query? It could be quite annoying for the users to specify all the column fields names and types. I was going to introduce a new 'scan.query' property for this ticket, then I faced another problem : how can I set 'connector.table'? In a statement like the following, is there a way to set 'connector.table' to the user table name (i.e. MyUserTable)? Or do I have to autogenerate an Id somehow? {code:sql} CREATE TABLE MyUserTable ( ... ) WITH ( 'connector.type' = 'jdbc', 'connector.url' = 'jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/flink-test', 'scan.query' = 'select x.a, y.b FROM X JOIN Y ON X.k = Y.k', {code} > Support creating of a JDBC table using a custom query > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-17361 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-17361 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Table SQL / API > Reporter: Flavio Pompermaier > Priority: Major > > In a long discussion on the mailing list it has emerged how it is not > possible to create a JDBC table that extract data using a custom query. > A temporary workaround could be to assign as 'connector.table' the target > query. > However this is undesirable. > Moreover, in relation to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-17360, a > query could be actually a statement that requires parameters to be filled by > the custom parameter values provider -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)