Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3058#discussion_r95968750 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/plan/nodes/dataset/DataSetSort.scala --- @@ -71,6 +72,21 @@ class DataSetSort( ) } + override def estimateRowCount(metadata: RelMetadataQuery): Double = { + val inputRowCnt = metadata.getRowCount(this.getInput) + if (inputRowCnt == null) { + inputRowCnt + } else { + val rowCount = Math.max(inputRowCnt - limitStart, 0D) --- End diff -- inputRowCount might also just be an estimate and not guaranteed to be precise. Returning 1 is more robust, because it does not result in no-cost operators downstream.
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