[SPARK-12139][SQL] REGEX Column Specification for Hive Queries #10137
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When executing a query of the form
Select
(a)?.
from A,Hive interprets this query as a regular expression, which can be supported in the hive parser for spark
If a columns is specified in backticks (eg. (ds)?+.+), the hive parser will treat that as a regular expression and 'expand' the columns similar to a *, on columns that match the regex.