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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-7821: --------------------------------------- Github user twalthr commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4813#discussion_r146489748 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/api/table.scala --- @@ -726,7 +726,10 @@ class Table( * }}} * * @param offset number of records to skip + * + * @deprecated Please use [[Table.offset()]] and [[Table.fetch()]] instead. */ + @deprecated(message = "Deprecated in favor of Table.offset() and Table.fetch()", since = "1.4.0") --- End diff -- This kind of deprecation does not work for Java. Please add the Java annotation as well. > Replace Table.limit() by Table.fetch() and Table.offset() > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-7821 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7821 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Table API & SQL > Affects Versions: 1.4.0 > Reporter: Fabian Hueske > Assignee: Fabian Hueske > Priority: Minor > > The Table API method limit() exists in two variants: > - {{limit(offset)}} returns all but the first {{offset}} records. > - {{limit(offset, fetch)}} returns {{fetch}} records starting from the > {{offset}}'s record. > Especially, the behavior of {{limit(offset)}} is confusing because one would > rather expect a behavior of returning the {{offset}} first records instead of > all but the {{offset}} first records. > Moreover, the only way to return the first {{x}} records is to specify a > {{0}} offset as {{limit(0, x)}}. > I propose to deprecate and replace both {{limit()}} variants by two new > methods {{Table.offset(offset)}} and {{Table.fetch(fetch)}} that can be > combined as follows: > {code} > table.orderBy(...).fetch(x) > table.orderBy(...).offset(x) > table.orderBy(...).offset(x).fetch(y) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)