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Min Zhou commented on HIVE-474: ------------------------------- I thought there is another special case here. If the query has multiple distinct operations on the same column , we can push down the evaluation of those expressions into reducers. Query: select a, count(distinct if(codition, b, null)) as col1, count(distinct if(!condition, null, b)) as col2, count(distinct b) as col3 Plan: Job : Map side: Emit: distribution_key: a, sort_key: a, b, value: nothing Reduce side: Group By a, count col1, col2, col3 by evaluating their expressions > Support for distinct selection on two or more columns > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-474 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-474 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Alexis Rondeau > > The ability to select distinct several, individual columns as by example: > select count(distinct user), count(distinct session) from actions; > Currently returns the following failure: > FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: line 2:7 DISTINCT on Different Columns > not Supported user -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.