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Support FIRST, AFTER and LAST options for nested fields #24513

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ebyhr opened this issue Dec 18, 2024 · 0 comments
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Support FIRST, AFTER and LAST options for nested fields #24513

ebyhr opened this issue Dec 18, 2024 · 0 comments

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ebyhr commented Dec 18, 2024

Follow-up of #20914. The PR supports position options only for top level columns.

Quote from #20914 (review):

The nested case is somewhat confusing. At first glance, it's not clear what y refers to in this statement:

ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN a.b.c BIGINT AFTER y

It's meant to be a field within a.b, but that's not immediately obvious. It could, as well, be a top-level column and the statement could be a short hand for creating all the required nested fields with the root a after y.

The following structure would be more natural, but it only works with AFTER and it's incompatible with how nested columns are handled in general:

ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c BIGINT AFTER a.b.y
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