[jira] [Commented] (PIG-3122) Operators should not implicitly become reserved keywords

["Alan Gates (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Alan Gates commented on PIG-3122:
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Reviewing this.
                
> Operators should not implicitly become reserved keywords
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-3122
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3122
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Jonathan Coveney
>            Assignee: Jonathan Coveney
>             Fix For: 0.12
>
>         Attachments: PIG-3122-0.patch
>
>
> As a byproduct of how ANTLR lexes things, whenever we introduce a new operator (RANK, CUBE, and any special keyword really) we are implicitly introducing a reserved word that can't be used for relations, columns, etc (unless give to us by the framework, as in the case of group).
> The following, for example, fails:
> {code}
> a = load 'foo' as (x:int);
> a = foreach a generate x as rank;
> {code}
> I'll include a patch to fix this essentially by whitelisting tokens. I currently just whitelist cube, rank, and group. We can add more as people want them? Can anyone think of reasonable ones they'd like to add?

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