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# Print SQL Connector

{{< label "Sink" >}}

The Print connector allows for writing every row to the standard output or standard error stream.

It is designed for:

- Easy test for streaming job.
- Very useful in production debugging.

Four possible format options:

<table class="table table-bordered">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th class="text-left" style="width: 40%">Print</th>
        <th class="text-center" style="width: 30%">Condition1</th>
        <th class="text-center" style="width: 30%">Condition2</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><h5>PRINT_IDENTIFIER:taskId> output</h5></td>
      <td>PRINT_IDENTIFIER provided</td>
      <td>parallelism > 1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><h5>PRINT_IDENTIFIER> output</h5></td>
      <td>PRINT_IDENTIFIER provided</td>
      <td>parallelism == 1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><h5>taskId> output</h5></td>
      <td>no PRINT_IDENTIFIER provided</td>
      <td>parallelism > 1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><h5>output</h5></td>
      <td>no PRINT_IDENTIFIER provided</td>
      <td>parallelism == 1</td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

The output string format is "$row_kind(f0,f1,f2...)", row_kind is the short string of `RowKind`, example is: "+I(1,1)".

The Print connector is built-in.

<span class="label label-danger">Attention</span> Print sinks print records in runtime tasks, you need to observe the task log.

How to create a Print table
----------------

```sql
CREATE TABLE print_table (
  f0 INT,
  f1 INT,
  f2 STRING,
  f3 DOUBLE
) WITH (
  'connector' = 'print'
);
```

Alternatively, it may be based on  an existing schema using the [LIKE Clause]({{< ref "docs/sql/reference/ddl/create" >}}#create-table).


```sql
CREATE TABLE print_table WITH ('connector' = 'print')
LIKE source_table (EXCLUDING ALL)
```

Connector Options
----------------

<table class="table table-bordered">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th class="text-left" style="width: 25%">Option</th>
        <th class="text-center" style="width: 8%">Required</th>
        <th class="text-center" style="width: 7%">Default</th>
        <th class="text-center" style="width: 10%">Type</th>
        <th class="text-center" style="width: 50%">Description</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><h5>connector</h5></td>
      <td>required</td>
      <td style="word-wrap: break-word;">(none)</td>
      <td>String</td>
      <td>Specify what connector to use, here should be 'print'.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><h5>print-identifier</h5></td>
      <td>optional</td>
      <td style="word-wrap: break-word;">(none)</td>
      <td>String</td>
      <td>Message that identify print and is prefixed to the output of the value.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><h5>standard-error</h5></td>
      <td>optional</td>
      <td style="word-wrap: break-word;">false</td>
      <td>Boolean</td>
      <td>True, if the format should print to standard error instead of standard out.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><h5>sink.parallelism</h5></td>
      <td>optional</td>
      <td style="word-wrap: break-word;">(none)</td>
      <td>Integer</td>
      <td>Defines the parallelism of the Print sink operator. By default, the parallelism is determined by the framework using the same parallelism of the upstream chained operator.</td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
