Introduce METADATA and WATERMARK syntax #837
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This PR introduces two new syntax elements to improve our SQL UX, and also makes the meaningless STORED keyword optional for generated fields. The sqlparser side of these changes is in ArroyoSystems/sqlparser-rs#1.
WATERMARK FOR
Allows users to configure the event-time column and watermark generation expression without needing to create and then reference virtual fields:
for example,
Previously, this would have been written
METADATA FROM
Allow users to configure a column to have metadata injected from the source:
example:
Previous, this would have been written using a special function
Breaking changes
Existing syntax for both features is still supported, but are deprecated and will be removed in 0.15. However, as WATERMARK is now a keyword, unquoted fields named watermark will now produce an error.