Example: LOB Support in a UNION ALL Query - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database

Previously, columns with CLOB or BLOB data type were not allowed in any set operation query, as it is not possible to hash on a CLOB or BLOB column. UNION ALL does not need to hash on any column (including a LOB), that restriction is removed with the the UNION ALL optimizations feature.

Assume the following tables:

CREATE TABLE t_blob1 (a1 INTEGER, b1 BLOB(2097088000));
CREATE TABLE t_clob2 (a2 INTEGER, b2 CLOB);

Consider the following query:

-- Prior to Teradata Database 16.0:
SELECT b1 FROM t_clob1
UNION ALL
SELECT b2 FROM t_clob2;

Result:

*** Failure 5690 LOBs are not allowed to be hashed.
                Statement# 1, Info = 0

-- Teradata Database 16.0:
SELECT b1 FROM t_clob1 
UNION ALL 
SELECT b2 FROM t_clob2;

Result:

*** Query completed.  8 rows found.