[IMPALA-10553] Support for CTAS/Insert for external frontends

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Impala 4.0.0
• Epic Color: ghx-label-10
• Assignee: John Sherman
• Reporter: John Sherman
• Created: 26/Feb/21 23:23
• Updated: 30/Mar/21 01:11
• Resolved: 30/Mar/21 01:11

Description

The intent is to allow external frontends to INSERT/CTAS and INSERT INTO SELECT. The work mostly revolves around support for specifying where the data should land (I.E. a staging directory) and leave the responsibility of doing the final move to the external frontend.