Apache Pinot

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?

We don't have table level alias'ing in Pinot.

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).

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

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

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