Github user marmbrus commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/737#discussion_r12546769
  
    --- Diff: 
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/aggregates.scala
 ---
    @@ -166,10 +167,48 @@ case class CountDistinct(expressions: 
Seq[Expression]) extends AggregateExpressi
       override def references = expressions.flatMap(_.references).toSet
       override def nullable = false
       override def dataType = IntegerType
    -  override def toString = s"COUNT(DISTINCT ${expressions.mkString(",")}})"
    +  override def toString = s"COUNT(DISTINCT ${expressions.mkString(",")})"
       override def newInstance() = new CountDistinctFunction(expressions, this)
     }
     
    +case class ApproxCountDistinctPartition(child: Expression)
    +    extends AggregateExpression with trees.UnaryNode[Expression] {
    +  override def references = child.references
    +  override def nullable = false
    +  override def dataType = child.dataType
    +  override def toString = s"APPROXIMATE COUNT(DISTINCT $child)"
    +  override def newInstance() = new 
ApproxCountDistinctPartitionFunction(child, this)
    +}
    +
    +case class ApproxCountDistinctMerge(child: Expression)
    +    extends AggregateExpression with trees.UnaryNode[Expression] {
    +  override def references = child.references
    +  override def nullable = false
    +  override def dataType = IntegerType
    +  override def toString = s"APPROXIMATE COUNT(DISTINCT $child)"
    +  override def newInstance() = new ApproxCountDistinctMergeFunction(child, 
this)
    +}
    +
    +object ApproxCountDistinct {
    +  val RelativeSD = 0.05
    --- End diff --
    
    Having a default here is reasonable, but we should probably expose this to 
the user as well.  Maybe two versions in the parser?


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