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Navis commented on HIVE-8388: ----------------------------- Duplicates HIVE-494. > Support GROUP/ORDER BY column references by ordinal position > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-8388 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8388 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: SQL > Reporter: John Scheibmeir > Assignee: Gunther Hagleitner > Priority: Minor > > Allow user to reference the group by or order by column by the desired > column's ordinal position > Support syntax such as: > select t.col1, sum(t.col2) from my_table t group by 1 order by 1 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)