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Ashish Thusoo commented on HADOOP-4086: --------------------------------------- Agreed... We do need a client side iterator operator and limit operator can be pushed to it in the simple case. > Add limit to Hive QL > -------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-4086 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4086 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: contrib/hive > Reporter: Ashish Thusoo > Assignee: Ashish Thusoo > > Add a limit feature to the Hive Query language. > so you can do the following things: > SELECT * FROM T LIMIT 10; > and this would just return the 10 rows. > No gaurantees are made on which 10 rows are returned by the query. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.