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Flavio Pompermaier commented on FLINK-17361:
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[~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



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