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Ashish Thusoo commented on HIVE-287: ------------------------------------ @John Another disadvantage for doing C that I can think of is the fact that count would become a keyword and then any column names would have to be quoted. Not a big deal but just something that would be a side effect of going with C. > count distinct on multiple columns does not work > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-287 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-287 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Namit Jain > Assignee: Arvind Prabhakar > Attachments: HIVE-287-1.patch, HIVE-287-2.patch, HIVE-287-3.patch, > HIVE-287-4.patch > > > The following query does not work: > select count(distinct col1, col2) from Tbl -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.