Rajat Khandelwal created HIVE-13727: ---------------------------------------
Summary: Getting error Failed rule: 'orderByClause clusterByClause distributeByClause sortByClause limitClause can only be applied to the whole union.' in subquery Key: HIVE-13727 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13727 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Rajat Khandelwal The error comes in the following query: {noformat} SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM srcpart a WHERE a.ds = '2008-04-08' AND a.hr = '11' ORDER BY a.key LIMIT 5 UNION ALL SELECT * FROM srcpart b WHERE b.ds = '2008-04-08' AND b.hr = '14' ORDER BY b.key LIMIT 5) subq ORDER BY KEY LIMIT 5 {noformat} But not in the following query: {noformat} SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM srcpart a WHERE a.ds = '2008-04-08' AND a.hr = '11' ORDER BY a.key LIMIT 5) pa UNION ALL SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM srcpart b WHERE b.ds = '2008-04-08' AND b.hr = '14' ORDER BY b.key LIMIT 5) pb) subq ORDER BY KEY LIMIT 5 {noformat} The queries are logically identical, the query that's rejected has dummy select * clauses around the sub-queries. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)