GitHub user fhueske opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4813
[FLINK-7821] [table] Deprecate Table.limit() and replace it by
Table.offset() and Table.fetch().
## What is the purpose of the change
- `Table.limit(n)` has unexpected semantics of returning all but the first
`n` rows.
- Returning the first `n` rows from a sorted result requires to specify a 0
offset (`table.orderBy(...).limit(0, n)`) which is more complicated than
necessary.
## Brief change log
- deprecate `Table.limit()` and replace it by `Table.offset()` and
`Table.fetch()`
## Verifying this change
- existing tests for `limit` were adapted for `offset` and `fetch`.
## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts:
- Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): **no**
- The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with
`@Public(Evolving)`: **no**
- The serializers: **no**
- The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): **no**
- Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its
components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: **no**
## Documentation
- Documentation was adapted.
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/fhueske/flink tableOffsetFetch
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4813.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #4813
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commit 7b1e3cb03a8e863699940b152f727551c2d43ea0
Author: Fabian Hueske <fhue...@apache.org>
Date: 2017-10-12T08:56:19Z
[FLINK-7821] [table] Deprecate Table.limit() and replace it by
Table.offset() and Table.fetch().
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