You have attributevalue in quotes which makes it a constant literal.

igor
decide.com

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Keith Wiley <kwi...@keithwiley.com> wrote:

> Um, this is weird.  It simply isn't modifying the order of the returned
> rows at all.  I get the same result with no 'order by' clause as with one.
>  Adding a limit or specifying 'asc' has no effect.  Using 'sort by' also
> has no effect.  The column used for ordering is type INT.  In the example
> below, I was hoping to "sort" or "order" the results according to the third
> column.  Like I said, I also tried adding 'limit 10' and/or 'asc' to the
> end of the query; they had no effect.  The jobtracker shows a single mapper
> and a single reducer being used for the job incidentally, so it can't be
> some sort of multi-reducer sort discrepancy.
>
> hive> describe stringmap;
> OK
> objecttypecode  int
> attributename   string
> attributevalue  int
> langid  int
> value   string
> displayorder    int
> Time taken: 0.074 seconds
> hive>
>
>
> hive> select * from stringmap where attributename='foo' order by
> 'attributevalue';
> Total MapReduce jobs = 1
> Launching Job 1 out of 1
> Number of reduce tasks determined at compile time: 1
> In order to change the average load for a reducer (in bytes):
>  set hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer=<number>
> In order to limit the maximum number of reducers:
>  set hive.exec.reducers.max=<number>
> In order to set a constant number of reducers:
>  set mapred.reduce.tasks=<number>
> Starting Job = job_201202221500_0114, Tracking URL =
> http://localhost:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_201202221500_0114
> Kill Command = /media/sdb1/kwiley/hadoop/hadoop-0.20.2-cdh3u3/bin/hadoop
> job  -Dmapred.job.tracker=localhost:9001 -kill job_201202221500_0114
> 2012-03-13 14:45:28,418 Stage-1 map = 0%,  reduce = 0%
> 2012-03-13 14:45:31,428 Stage-1 map = 100%,  reduce = 0%
> 2012-03-13 14:45:39,459 Stage-1 map = 100%,  reduce = 33%
> 2012-03-13 14:45:40,463 Stage-1 map = 100%,  reduce = 100%
> Ended Job = job_201202221500_0114
> OK
> 3       foo     6       1033    6 - aaa 6
> 3       foo     3       1033    3 - bbb 3
> 3       foo     4       1033    4 - ccc 4
> 4       foo     1       1033    Default Value   1
> 3       foo     2       1033    2 - ddd 2
> 3       foo     1       1033    1 - eee 1
> 3       foo     5       1033    5 - fff 5
> Time taken: 17.954 seconds
> hive>
>
>
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