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Zheng Shao commented on HIVE-894: --------------------------------- I think it's OK to stay in contrib since these are non-standard functions, but I agree with the other 3 items. Bill, can you take a look? > add udaf max_n, min_n to contrib > -------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-894 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-894 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Zheng Shao > Assignee: Bill Jia > Attachments: HIVE-894.1.patch > > > These 2 UDAFs should return the max n numbers, min n numbers in order. > {code} > SELECT max_n(userid, 3) FROM src; > [999,997,996] > SELECT max_n(userid, 3)[1] FROM src; > 997 > SELECT min_n(userid, 3) FROM src; > [0, 3, 8] > SELECT min_n(userid, 3)[2] FROM src; > 8 > {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.