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Sergey Shelukhin edited comment on HIVE-8089 at 9/17/14 9:23 PM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- it seems that ordering in the subquery should have no effect on any outer limits, and outer limits cannot have effect on nested query. So if I have numbers 1..10, and so select N from (select N order by N limit 5), that should return 1..5. If we have select N from (select N order by N) limit 5 we can return any 5 numbers in any order, because it's just like select N from table limit 5 - no order is guaranteed... I will take a look if this is easy to make this behavior more "user-friendly" was (Author: sershe): it seems that ordering in the subquery should have no effect on any outer limits, and outer limits cannot have effect on nested query. So if I sort numbers 1..10, and so select N from (select N order by N limit 5), that should return 1..5. If we have select N from (select N order by N) limit 5 we can return any 5 numbers in any order, because it's just like select N from table limit 5 - no order is guaranteed... I will take a look if this is easy to make this behavior more "user-friendly" > 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 > Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin > > 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)