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Phabricator commented on HIVE-494: ---------------------------------- navis has commented on the revision "HIVE-494 [jira] Select columns by index instead of name". Simple patch, but was very useful for me to implement query generator for random-forest. REVISION DETAIL https://reviews.facebook.net/D1641 > Select columns by index instead of name > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-494 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-494 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Wish > Components: Clients, Query Processor > Reporter: Adam Kramer > Priority: Minor > Labels: SQL > Attachments: HIVE-494.D1641.1.patch > > > SELECT mytable[0], mytable[2] FROM some_table_name mytable; > ...should return the first and third columns, respectively, from mytable > regardless of their column names. > The need for "names" specifically is kind of silly when they just get > translated into numbers anyway. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira