diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQuery.java b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQuery.java
index f02d3596dea..3f0b9a163ad 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQuery.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQuery.java
@@ -592,7 +592,11 @@ public class GroupByQuery extends BaseQuery<ResultRow>
         needsReverseList.add(false);
         final ColumnType type = dimensions.get(i).getOutputType();
         dimensionTypes.add(type);
-        comparators.add(StringComparators.LEXICOGRAPHIC);
+        if (type.isNumeric()) {
+          comparators.add(StringComparators.NUMERIC);
+        } else {
+          comparators.add(StringComparators.LEXICOGRAPHIC);
+        }
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/processing/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQueryRunnerTest.java b/processing/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQueryRunnerTest.java
index cf9490c7073..a48f2d936f1 100644
--- a/processing/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQueryRunnerTest.java
+++ b/processing/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/query/groupby/GroupByQueryRunnerTest.java
@@ -11176,6 +11176,76 @@ public class GroupByQueryRunnerTest extends InitializedNullHandlingTest
     TestHelper.assertExpectedObjects(expectedResults, results, "order-limit");
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testMergeLimitPushDownResultsWithLongDimensionNotInLimitSpec()
+  {
+    // Cannot vectorize due to extraction dimension spec.
+    cannotVectorize();
+
+    if (!config.getDefaultStrategy().equals(GroupByStrategySelector.STRATEGY_V2)) {
+      return;
+    }
+    GroupByQuery.Builder builder = makeQueryBuilder()
+            .setDataSource(QueryRunnerTestHelper.DATA_SOURCE)
+            .setInterval("2011-04-02/2011-04-04")
+            .setDimensions(new ExtractionDimensionSpec("quality", "qualityLen", ColumnType.LONG, StrlenExtractionFn.instance()))
+            .setAggregatorSpecs(QueryRunnerTestHelper.ROWS_COUNT)
+            .setLimitSpec(
+                    new DefaultLimitSpec(
+                            Collections.emptyList(),
+                            20
+                    )
+            )
+            .overrideContext(ImmutableMap.of(GroupByQueryConfig.CTX_KEY_FORCE_LIMIT_PUSH_DOWN, true))
+            .setGranularity(Granularities.ALL);
+
+    final GroupByQuery allGranQuery = builder.build();
+
+    QueryRunner mergedRunner = factory.getToolchest().mergeResults(
+        (queryPlus, responseContext) -> {
+          // simulate two daily segments
+          final QueryPlus<ResultRow> queryPlus1 = queryPlus.withQuery(
+                  queryPlus.getQuery().withQuerySegmentSpec(
+                          new MultipleIntervalSegmentSpec(Collections.singletonList(Intervals.of("2011-04-02/2011-04-03")))
+                  )
+          );
+          final QueryPlus<ResultRow> queryPlus2 = queryPlus.withQuery(
+                  queryPlus.getQuery().withQuerySegmentSpec(
+                          new MultipleIntervalSegmentSpec(Collections.singletonList(Intervals.of("2011-04-03/2011-04-04")))
+                  )
+          );
+
+          return factory.getToolchest().mergeResults(
+              (queryPlus3, responseContext1) -> new MergeSequence<>(
+                  queryPlus3.getQuery().getResultOrdering(),
+                  Sequences.simple(
+                      Arrays.asList(
+                          runner.run(queryPlus1, responseContext1),
+                          runner.run(queryPlus2, responseContext1)
+                      )
+                  )
+              )
+          ).run(queryPlus, responseContext);
+        }
+    );
+    Map<String, Object> context = new HashMap<>();
+    List<ResultRow> allGranExpectedResults = Arrays.asList(
+            makeRow(allGranQuery, "2011-04-02", "qualityLen", 4L, "rows", 2L),
+            makeRow(allGranQuery, "2011-04-02", "qualityLen", 6L, "rows", 4L),
+            makeRow(allGranQuery, "2011-04-02", "qualityLen", 7L, "rows", 6L),
+            makeRow(allGranQuery, "2011-04-02", "qualityLen", 8L, "rows", 2L),
+            makeRow(allGranQuery, "2011-04-02", "qualityLen", 9L, "rows", 6L),
+            makeRow(allGranQuery, "2011-04-02", "qualityLen", 10L, "rows", 4L),
+            makeRow(allGranQuery, "2011-04-02", "qualityLen", 13L, "rows", 2L)
+    );
+
+    TestHelper.assertExpectedObjects(
+            allGranExpectedResults,
+            mergedRunner.run(QueryPlus.wrap(allGranQuery)),
+            "merged"
+    );
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testMergeResultsWithLimitPushDown()
   {