[FLINK-20142] Update the document for CREATE TABLE LIKE that source table from different catalog is supported

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 1.11.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.3, 1.12.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Table SQL / API
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Danny Chen
• Reporter: Danny Chen
• Created: 13/Nov/20 08:22
• Updated: 17/Nov/20 08:49
• Resolved: 17/Nov/20 08:45

Description

The confusion from the USER mailing list:

Hi,

Is it disallowed to refer to a table from different databases or catalogs when someone creates a table?

According to [1], there's no way to refer to tables belonging to different databases or catalogs.

[1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/dev/table/sql/create.html#create-table

Best,

Dongwon

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14091