Github user akashrn5 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/2501#discussion_r202285088 --- Diff: integration/spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/CarbonDDLSqlParser.scala --- @@ -720,18 +720,18 @@ abstract class CarbonDDLSqlParser extends AbstractCarbonSparkSQLParser { tableProperties.get(CarbonCommonConstants.DICTIONARY_EXCLUDE).get.split(',').map(_.trim) dictExcludeCols .foreach { dictExcludeCol => + if (dictExcludeCol.contains(".") || dictExcludeCol.contains("[")) { --- End diff -- do not check, for contains ".", get from field whether it is child column, then you can check whether that is given in include or exclude and throw exception
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