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John Sichi commented on HIVE-1683: ---------------------------------- This is not a bug and should be closed as invalid. Conceptually, GROUP BY processing happens before SELECT list computation, so it would be circular to allow such references. > Column aliases cannot be used in a group by clause > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1683 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1683 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Shrikrishna Lawande > > Column aliases cannot be used in a group by clause > Following query would fail : > select col1 as t, count(col2) from test group by t; > FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: line 1:49 Invalid Table Alias or Column > Reference t -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.