Thanks Timo for preparing the FLIP.
Regarding "By default, DISTRIBUTED BY assumes a list of columns for an
implicit hash partitioning."
Do you think it's useful to add some extensibility for the hash
strategy. One scenario I can foresee is if we write bucketed data into
Hive, and if Flink's hash s
Distribute by in DML is also supported by Hive.
And it is also useful for flink.
Users can use this ability to increase cache hit rate in lookup join.
And users can use "distribute by key, rand(1, 10)” to avoid data skew problem.
And I think it is another way to solve this Flip204[1]
There is alrea