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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-4420:
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GitHub user wuchong opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2384
[FLINK-4420] [table] Introduce star(*) to select all of the columns in the
table
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When we have many columns in a table, it's easy to select all the columns
if we support select *.
In Scala:
```scala
val result = table.select('*);
```
In Java:
```java
Table result = table.select("*");
```
In addition, I add some constrains for field alias. Forbid `*` as a field
name.
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This closes #2384
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commit e0ec9ba3b76ab8325af0fb6822851fab2cc7598a
Author: Jark Wu <wuchong...@alibaba-inc.com>
Date: 2016-08-18T05:08:01Z
[FLINK-4420] [table] Introduce star(*) to select all of the columns in the
table
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> Introduce star(*) to select all of the columns in the table
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-4420
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4420
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Table API & SQL
> Reporter: Jark Wu
> Assignee: Jark Wu
>
> When we have many columns in a table, it's easy to select all the columns if
> we support {{select *}}.
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