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Commit a0b92f73 authored by Herman van Hovell's avatar Herman van Hovell
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[SPARK-19850][SQL] Allow the use of aliases in SQL function calls

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
We currently cannot use aliases in SQL function calls. This is inconvenient when you try to create a struct. This SQL query for example `select struct(1, 2) st`, will create a struct with column names `col1` and `col2`. This is even more problematic when we want to append a field to an existing struct. For example if we want to a field to struct `st` we would issue the following SQL query `select struct(st.*, 1) as st from src`, the result will be struct `st` with an a column with a non descriptive name `col3` (if `st` itself has 2 fields).

This PR proposes to change this by allowing the use of aliased expression in function parameters. For example `select struct(1 as a, 2 as b) st`, will create a struct with columns `a` & `b`.

## How was this patch tested?
Added a test to `ExpressionParserSuite` and added a test file for `SQLQueryTestSuite`.

Author: Herman van Hovell <hvanhovell@databricks.com>

Closes #17245 from hvanhovell/SPARK-19850.
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