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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-9008: ----------------------------------- This JIRA also needs a better title. The problem described here seems similar to that in HIVE-8009. > primary table in union > ---------------------- > > Key: HIVE-9008 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9008 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Pengcheng Xiong > > Following http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/union.html > The column names from the first SELECT statement are used as the column names > for the results returned. Selected columns listed in corresponding positions > of each SELECT statement should have the same data type. (For example, the > first column selected by the first statement should have the same type as the > first column selected by the other statements.) > If the data types of corresponding SELECT columns do not match, the types and > lengths of the columns in the UNION result take into account the values > retrieved by all of the SELECT statements. > We can say > select A.id from A > union > select B.id from B > order by id > We can say > select A.id as a from A > union > select B.id from B > order by a > We can NOT say > select A.id as a from A > union > select B.id from B > order by A.id > ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'A.id' in 'order clause' > We can NOT say > select A.id as a from A > union > select B.id from B > order by B.id > ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'B.id' in 'order clause' > We can say > select A.id as a from A > union > (select B.id from B > order by B.id) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)