Local

Name

SinceVersion dev

local

Description

Local table-valued-function(tvf), allows users to read and access local file contents on be node, just like accessing relational table. Currently supports csv/csv_with_names/csv_with_names_and_types/json/parquet/orc file format.

It needs ADMIN privilege to use.

syntax

local(
  "file_path" = "path/to/file.txt", 
  "backend_id" = "be_id",
  "format" = "csv",
  "keyn" = "valuen" 
  ...
  );

parameter description

Related parameters for accessing local file on be node:

• file_path:

  (required) The path of the file to be read, which is a relative path to the user_files_secure_path directory, where user_files_secure_path parameter can be configured on be.

  Can not contains .. in path. Support using glob syntax to match multi files, such as log/*.log

• backend_id:

  (required) The backend id where the file resides. The backend_id can be obtained by show backends command.

File format parameters:

• format: (required) Currently support csv/csv_with_names/csv_with_names_and_types/json/parquet/orc

• column_separator: (optional) default ,.

• line_delimiter: (optional) default \n.

• compress_type: (optional) Currently support UNKNOWN/PLAIN/GZ/LZO/BZ2/LZ4FRAME/DEFLATE. Default value is UNKNOWN, it will automatically infer the type based on the suffix of uri.

  The following 6 parameters are used for loading in json format. For specific usage methods, please refer to: Json Load

• read_json_by_line: (optional) default "true"

• strip_outer_array: (optional) default "false"

• json_root: (optional) default ""

• json_paths: (optional) default ""

• num_as_string: (optional) default false

• fuzzy_parse: (optional) default false

  SinceVersion devThe following 2 parameters are used for loading in csv format

• trim_double_quotes: Boolean type (optional), the default value is false. True means that the outermost double quotes of each field in the csv file are trimmed.

• skip_lines: Integer type (optional), the default value is 0. It will skip some lines in the head of csv file. It will be disabled when the format is csv_with_names or csv_with_names_and_types.

Examples

Analyze the log file on specified BE:

mysql> select * from local(
        "file_path" = "log/be.out",
        "backend_id" = "10006",
        "format" = "csv")
       where c1 like "%start_time%" limit 10;
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| c1                                                     |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| start time: 2023年 08月 07日 星期一 23:20:32 CST       |
| start time: 2023年 08月 07日 星期一 23:32:10 CST       |
| start time: 2023年 08月 08日 星期二 00:20:50 CST       |
| start time: 2023年 08月 08日 星期二 00:29:15 CST       |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

Read and access csv format files located at path ${DORIS_HOME}/student.csv:

mysql> select * from local(
      "file_path" = "student.csv", 
      "backend_id" = "10003", 
      "format" = "csv");
+------+---------+--------+
| c1   | c2      | c3     |
+------+---------+--------+
| 1    | alice   | 18     |
| 2    | bob     | 20     |
| 3    | jack    | 24     |
| 4    | jackson | 19     |
| 5    | liming  | d18    |
+------+---------+--------+

Can be used with desc function :

mysql> desc function local(
      "file_path" = "student.csv", 
      "backend_id" = "10003", 
      "format" = "csv");
+-------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key   | Default | Extra |
+-------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+
| c1    | TEXT | Yes  | false | NULL    | NONE  |
| c2    | TEXT | Yes  | false | NULL    | NONE  |
| c3    | TEXT | Yes  | false | NULL    | NONE  |
+-------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+

Keywords

local, table-valued-function, tvf

Best Practice

For more detailed usage of local tvf, please refer to S3 tvf, The only difference between them is the way of accessing the storage system.