On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Jeff Zhang <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