pr: 135051
summary: Ban Limit + `MvExpand` before remote Enrich
area: ES|QL
type: bug
issues: []
highlight:
  title: Prevent LIMIT + MV_EXPAND before remote ENRICH
  body: |-
    Queries using LIMIT followed by MV_EXPAND before a remote ENRICH can produce incorrect results due to distributed execution semantics.
    These queries are now unsupported and produce an error. Example:
    [source,yaml]
    ----------------------------
    FROM *:events | SORT @timestamp | LIMIT 2 | MV_EXPAND ip | ENRICH _remote:clientip_policy ON ip
    ----------------------------
    To avoid this error, reorder your query, for example by moving ENRICH earlier in the pipeline.