This is a known issue. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KYLIN-2679 Thanks for reporting again. This will help the priority of the task.
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:42 PM, bubugao0809 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all > > I found the following content from URL: http://kylin.apache.org/blog/ > 2016/08/01/count-distinct-in-kylin/ > > "The global dictionay cannot be used for dimension encoding for now, that > means if one column is used for both dimension and count distinct measure > in one cube, its dimension encoding should be others instead of dict." > > It means that the column, serving as both measure and dimension, can also > use the 'Global dictionary'. > > For my case, I use DIM_DEVELOPER.DEVELOPER_ID for count distinct in > measure, as well as the dimensions. And I change the encoding in Rowkeys > (listed in the 4th row) from dict to integer with the lenght of 8. > > However, it still does not work, showing the following error messge: 'ERROR > : Global dictionary couldn't be used for dimension column: > DIM_DUI.DIM_DEVELOPER.DEVELOPER_ID' > > I was wondering if there is any way that I could work around, because the > situation tjhat column serves as both measure and dimension is quite common > in productive env > > > >
