Does Pinot have a way to create an alias to a specific table

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Does Pinot have a way to create an alias to a specific table I m thinking about the situation where I want to make a large change to a table and I ll need to recreate it Can I use an alias and do the swap inside Pinot Or would I want a layer outside of Pinot to convert this alias table name to a specific Pinot table

Mayank · Answer

We don t have table level alias ing in Pinot

Mayank · Answer

One advantage of doing this outside of Pinot is that you can control how you move your traffic from old to new table say A B testing

Dan Hill · Answer

That makes sense

Kishore G · Answer

Btw we do have plans for aliasing and supporting derived virtual fields There is an issue for that

Kishore G · Answer

Please add this requirement and upvote

Kishore G · Answer

Ah sorry I read it as alias column

Kishore G · Answer

Table alias is something we were thinking in a different context It added more complexity and we did not pursue

Kishore G · Answer

Agree with what Mayank said for now that s the best solution