On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 09:38:01PM +0000, Vineet Garg wrote: > Not exactly sequence but an ability to generate unique numbers (with > limitation) is under development: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20536
unique numbers is sufficient for a sequence. However, the limitation looks huge: > 65K tasks and 17M rows in a task This means the job might fail for very huge table ? (=65k * 17M rows) -- nicolas
