Major Description
Each time, when I write a complex Create Table statement, I have to open the .g4 file to find the EXACT order of clauses in CREATE TABLE statement. When the order is not right, I will get A strange confusing error message generated from ALTR4.
CREATE [TEMPORARY] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name
[(col_name1 col_type1 [COMMENT col_comment1], ...)]
USING datasource
[OPTIONS (key1=val1, key2=val2, ...)]
[PARTITIONED BY (col_name1, col_name2, ...)]
[CLUSTERED BY (col_name3, col_name4, ...) INTO num_buckets BUCKETS]
[LOCATION path]
[COMMENT table_comment]
[TBLPROPERTIES (key1=val1, key2=val2, ...)]
[AS select_statement]
The proposal is to make the following clauses order insensitive.
[OPTIONS (key1=val1, key2=val2, ...)]
[PARTITIONED BY (col_name1, col_name2, ...)]
[CLUSTERED BY (col_name3, col_name4, ...) INTO num_buckets BUCKETS]
[LOCATION path]
[COMMENT table_comment]
[TBLPROPERTIES (key1=val1, key2=val2, ...)]
The same idea is also applicable to Create Hive Table.
CREATE [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name
[(col_name1[:] col_type1 [COMMENT col_comment1], ...)]
[COMMENT table_comment]
[PARTITIONED BY (col_name2[:] col_type2 [COMMENT col_comment2], ...)]
[ROW FORMAT row_format]
[STORED AS file_format]
[LOCATION path]
[TBLPROPERTIES (key1=val1, key2=val2, ...)]
[AS select_statement]
The proposal is to make the following clauses order insensitive.
[COMMENT table_comment]
[PARTITIONED BY (col_name2[:] col_type2 [COMMENT col_comment2], ...)]
[ROW FORMAT row_format]
[STORED AS file_format]
[LOCATION path]
[TBLPROPERTIES (key1=val1, key2=val2, ...)]
