[SPARK-41637] ORDER BY ALL

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 21/Dec/22 00:35
• Updated: 23/Dec/22 04:52
• Resolved: 23/Dec/22 04:52

Description

This patch adds ORDER BY ALL support to SQL. ORDER BY ALL is a syntactic sugar to sort the output by all the fields, from left to right. It also allows specifying asc/desc as well as null ordering. This was initially introduced by DuckDB. 

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-41635 GROUP BY ALL
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #39144 (rxin)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #39144 (rxin)