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[GitHub] [beam] kennknowles opened a new issue, #18647: [SQL] Support schema qualifiers for field names

kennknowles opened a new issue, #18647:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/18647

   Currently there are utility methods in BeamRecord to get field values by name, e.g. BeamRecord.getFieldValue(String name). Internally they call fieldNamesArrayList.indexOf(fieldName) to find the index of the field name.
   
   This works as long as there is only one field with such name in the record. But when joining 2 records you can end up with duplicate field names, and without any means of distinguishing them or getting a value from specific field by name. We don't keep any metadata in BeamRecordType to help identify a field in this case. 
   
   It feels that this can lead to obscure bugs.
   
   We probably should keep more detailed schema information attached to the fields, so that we could reference them using qualifiers like "[schemaA].[pcollectionB].[fieldC]".
   
    
   
   Imported from Jira [BEAM-3574](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3574). Original Jira may contain additional context.
   Reported by: kedin.


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