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Ashish Thusoo commented on HIVE-287:
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@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

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