Dian Fu created FLINK-20794: ------------------------------- Summary: Support to select distinct columns in the Table API Key: FLINK-20794 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-20794 Project: Flink Issue Type: Sub-task Components: Table SQL / API Reporter: Dian Fu Fix For: 1.13.0
Currently, there is no corresponding functionality in Table API for the following SQL: {code:java} SELECT DISTINCT users FROM Orders {code} For example, for the following job: {code:java} table.select("distinct a") {code} It will thrown the following exception: {code:java} org.apache.flink.table.api.ExpressionParserException: Could not parse expression at column 10: ',' expected but 'a' foundorg.apache.flink.table.api.ExpressionParserException: Could not parse expression at column 10: ',' expected but 'a' founddistinct a ^ at org.apache.flink.table.expressions.PlannerExpressionParserImpl$.throwError(PlannerExpressionParserImpl.scala:726) at org.apache.flink.table.expressions.PlannerExpressionParserImpl$.parseExpressionList(PlannerExpressionParserImpl.scala:710) at org.apache.flink.table.expressions.PlannerExpressionParserImpl.parseExpressionList(PlannerExpressionParserImpl.scala:47) at org.apache.flink.table.expressions.ExpressionParser.parseExpressionList(ExpressionParser.java:40) at org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.TableImpl.select(TableImpl.java:121){code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)