[jira] Commented: (HIVE-1128) Let max/min handle complex types like struct

["Todd Lipcon (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Todd Lipcon commented on HIVE-1128:
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This is clever, but I'd be surprised if a lot of non-programmer users would come up with this on their own. Would it be helpful to also provide argmin and argmax functions? The statistics community would probably appreciate the syntactic sugar.

> Let max/min handle complex types like struct
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-1128
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1128
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.6.0
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>
> A lot of users are interested in doing "arg_min" and "arg_max". Basically, return the value of some other columns when one column's value is the max value.
> The following is an example usage when this is done:
> {code}
> SELECT department, max(struct(salary, employee_name))
> FROM compensations;
> {code}

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