pranav.lodha acca24fe02 IMPALA-14005: Support for quoted reserved words column names
This change updates the way column names are
projected in the SQL query generated for JDBC
external tables. Instead of relying on optional
mapping or default behavior, all column names are now
explicitly quoted using appropriate quote characters.

Column names are now wrapped with quote characters
based on the JDBC driver being used:
1. Backticks (`) for Hive, Impala and MySQL
2. Double quotes (") for all other databases

This helps in the support for case-sensitive or
reserved column names.

Change-Id: I5da5bc7ea5df8f094b7e2877a0ebf35662f93805
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/23066
Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenzhe Zhou <wzhou@cloudera.com>
2025-08-12 15:01:13 +00:00

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