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Sergey Shelukhin commented on HIVE-8089: ---------------------------------------- At first glance it seems by design... ordering of the table is not preserved (or at least there's no guarantee about ordering) when one selects from a table w/o order by. So, why should it be preserved from subquery? > Ordering is lost when limit is put in outer query > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-8089 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8089 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Laljo John Pullokkaran > > It seems like hive supports order by, limit in sub queries (compiler doesn't > complain). However ordering seems to be lost based on where you place the > limit. I haven't debugged the issue. > ex: > select key, c_int from (select key, c_int from (select key, c_int from t1 > order by c_int limit 5)t1)t1; > null NULL > null NULL > 1 1 > 1 1 > 1 1 > select key, c_int from (select key, c_int from (select key, c_int from t1 > order by c_int)t1 limit 5)t1; > 1 1 > 1 1 > 1 1 > null NULL > null NULL > select key, c_int from (select key, c_int from (select key, c_int from t1 > order by c_int limit 5)t1 limit 5)t1; > 1 1 > 1 1 > 1 1 > null NULL > null NULL -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)