Good idea Edward. It would definitely better if it is what it sounds to be.
Btw Jeff, order by is supported in trunk with certain limititions in strict mode (has to have a limit). I will be able to update the wiki when I come back. Thanks, Ning ------ Sent from my blackberry ________________________________ From: Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> To: hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org <hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org> Cc: hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org <hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org> Sent: Fri Jun 11 11:13:57 2010 Subject: Re: Is anybody working on the globally "order by" of hive ? On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com<mailto:zjf...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, From the wiki of hive, Hive do not have the feature of globally "order by", the sort by of hive is for each reducer. Our team think the globally "order by" is an important feature for users, so wondering is anybody working it ? I am very interested to been involved. -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang Jeff, I was wondering if TotalOrderPartitioner in hadoop 20 could play a role in this. As of now order by sets reduce tasks to 1 :) Edward
