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Author: James Turton <ja...@somecomputer.xyz>
AuthorDate: Tue Feb 21 10:56:18 2023 +0200
Document DRILL-8290: Early exit from recursive file listing for LIMIT 0
queries.
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@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ LIMIT 0 optimizations do not work for queries with the UNION
[ALL] set operator
- CONVERT_TOEXTENDEDJSON
- AVG (window function)
+**Recursive file listing in Drill 1.21+**
+Since version 1.21, Drill will exit early from recursive file listing during
the planning of a query against filesystem storage if has detected a LIMIT 0 in
the outermost SELECT. This optimization is aimed at queries of the following
form.
+```
+SELECT * FROM dfs.`huge_directory` LIMIT 0;
+```
+
## Examples
The following example query includes the ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses and
returns the top 20 sales totals by month and state:
