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Hudson commented on HIVE-581: ----------------------------- Integrated in Hive-trunk-hadoop2 #54 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/Hive-trunk-hadoop2/54/]) HIVE-581 improve group by syntax (Zhenxiao Luo via namit) (Revision 1426165) Result = ABORTED namit : http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Apache-SVN&view=rev&rev=1426165 Files : * /hive/trunk/common/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/conf/HiveConf.java * /hive/trunk/conf/hive-default.xml.template * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/ErrorMsg.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/SemanticAnalyzer.java * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientnegative/groupby_invalid_position.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientnegative/orderby_invalid_position.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientnegative/orderby_position_unsupported.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/groupby_position.q * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientnegative/groupby_invalid_position.q.out * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientnegative/orderby_invalid_position.q.out * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientnegative/orderby_position_unsupported.q.out * /hive/trunk/ql/src/test/results/clientpositive/groupby_position.q.out > improve group by syntax > ----------------------- > > Key: HIVE-581 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-581 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Clients, Query Processor > Reporter: Larry Ogrodnek > Assignee: Zhenxiao Luo > Labels: features > Fix For: 0.11.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-581.1.patch.txt, HIVE-581.2.patch.txt > > > It would be nice if group by allowed either column aliases or column position > (like mysql). > It can be burdensome to have to repeat UDFs both in the select and in the > group by. > e.g. instead of: > select f1(col1), f2(col2), f3(col3), count(1) group by f1(col1), f2(col2), > f3(col3); > it would allow: > select f1(col1), f2(col2), f3(col3), count(1) group by 1, 2, 3; -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira