Merge failing of join tree in exceptional case ----------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2253 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2253 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Query Processor Affects Versions: 0.7.0 Environment: hadoop 0.20.2, hive 0.7.0 Reporter: Navis Priority: Minor In some very exceptional cases, SemanticAnayzer fails to merge join tree. Example is below. create table a (val1 int, val2 int) create table b (val1 int, val2 int) create table c (val1 int, val2 int) create table d (val1 int, val2 int) create table e (val1 int, val2 int) 1. all same(single) join key --> one MR, good select * from a join b on a.val1=b.val1 join c on a.val1=c.val1 join d on a.val1=d.val1 join e on a.val1=e.val1 2. two join keys --> expected to have two MR, but resulted to three MR select * from a join b on a.val1=b.val1 join c on a.val1=c.val1 join d on a.val1=d.val1 join e on a.val2=e.val2 3. by changing the join order, we could attain two MR as first-expectation. select * from a join e on a.val2=e.val2 join c on a.val1=c.val1 join d on a.val1=d.val1 join b on a.val1=b.val1 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira