Support `FIRST`, `AFTER` and `LAST` options for nested fields
ebyhr opened this issue · 0 comments
ebyhr commented
Follow-up of #20914. The PR supports position options only for top level columns.
Quote from #20914 (review):
The nested case is somewhat confusing. At first glance, it's not clear what y
refers to in this statement:
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN a.b.c BIGINT AFTER y
It's meant to be a field within a.b
, but that's not immediately obvious. It could, as well, be a top-level column and the statement could be a short hand for creating all the required nested fields with the root a
after y
.
The following structure would be more natural, but it only works with AFTER
and it's incompatible with how nested columns are handled in general:
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c BIGINT AFTER a.b.y