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Todd Lipcon commented on HIVE-1128: ----------------------------------- This is clever, but I'd be surprised if a lot of non-programmer users would come up with this on their own. Would it be helpful to also provide argmin and argmax functions? The statistics community would probably appreciate the syntactic sugar. > Let max/min handle complex types like struct > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1128 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1128 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.6.0 > Reporter: Zheng Shao > > A lot of users are interested in doing "arg_min" and "arg_max". Basically, > return the value of some other columns when one column's value is the max > value. > The following is an example usage when this is done: > {code} > SELECT department, max(struct(salary, employee_name)) > FROM compensations; > {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.