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Aman Sinha commented on DRILL-2361:
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+1 . I have ported the patch manually to the current master branch since 'git
am' did not apply cleanly. Sorry for the delayed action on this.
> Column aliases cannot include dots
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>
> Key: DRILL-2361
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-2361
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Query Planning & Optimization
> Affects Versions: 0.7.0, 0.8.0
> Reporter: Adam Gilmore
> Assignee: Aman Sinha
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.2.0
>
> Attachments: DRILL-2361.1.patch.txt, DRILL-2361.2.patch.txt
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> The Drill query engine rejects column aliases for aggregates or group by
> fields where the alias includes a dot.
> For example:
> {code}select count(*) as `test.field` from cp.`employee.json`;{code}
> throws an error with "Field references must be singular names."
> Having reviewed the code, I can't quite see a reason for it, and when using
> FieldReference.getWithQuotedRef instead in AggPrelBase, the issue is
> alleviated with no visible side effects.
> I'm sure there was a reason for this code in FieldReference, but I can't seem
> to work out why, and it seems entirely reasonable to allow a dot in a column
> alias.
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