[jira] [Comment Edited] (DRILL-5469) Meaningless error message when trying to use a constant in an order by statement

["Jinfeng Ni (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jinfeng Ni edited comment on DRILL-5469 at 5/3/17 11:32 PM:
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This is because * is dynamically expanded in Drill's execution time, not in planning time like traditional RDBMS.  Using ordinal reference to a column list expanded from dynamic * should not be allowed. Agreed that error message could be better for user to understand what went wrong. 

btw: "5" is not a constant. it's interpreted as a ordinal reference (5-th element in the select list).  



was (Author: jni):
This is because * is dynamically expanded in Drill's execution time, not in planning time like traditional RDBMS.  Using ordinal reference to a column list expanded from dynamic * should not be allowed. Agreed that error message could be better for user to understand what went wrong. 




> Meaningless error message when trying to use a constant in an order by statement
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DRILL-5469
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5469
>             Project: Apache Drill
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.10.0
>            Reporter: Rahul Challapalli
>
> git.commit.id.abbrev=1e0a14c
> While I agree that it does not make any sense to use a constant in an order by statement, users could just have such a typo in a large query. It would be really helpful if drill could point out precisely where the issue is. This is what I currently get
> {code}
> 0: jdbc:drill:zk=10.10.100.190:5181> select * from cp.`tpch/lineitem.parquet` order by 5;
> Error: VALIDATION ERROR: At line 1, column 51: Ordinal out of range
> SQL Query null
> [Error Id: e5cf4f6c-3d2c-412e-90a1-863897587399 on qa-node190.qa.lab:31010] (state=,code=0)
> {code}



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